2 ms·
The thing people forget though, is that fight continues to this very day, and it is with We The People that the right to determine and change where that balance
by salawat 5y ago
The thing people forget though, is that fight continues to this very day, and it is with We The People that the right to determine and change where that balance sits. Frankly, I think the Federal Government is just aggregating greater and greater degrees of power over time, and becoming a political sledgehammer reached for out of expedience.
- kelnos 5y agoThat's a fair point, but I don't think either major political party seriously wants a smaller central government. Democrats explicitly want to provide more social services, and Republicans claim to want smaller government, but what they seem to actually want (through their actions) is less regulation, but with the government itself not really much smaller. Certainly some parties -- like libertarians -- would actually enact policies to make the central government truly smaller were they to come into power, but they are guaranteed not to with our electoral system as it is. While in theory We The People have the right to determine all this, in practice we have little choice, it seems.