I think you are right. I like the ideas behind it: it empowers people, decentralizes power, could spur innovation, and is actually something people on the far l

I think you are right. I like the ideas behind it: it empowers people, decentralizes power, could spur innovation, and is actually something people on the far left and far right can agree upon. I also think it is hopelessly naive. You are talking about a change that would dismantle numerous massive government programs and completely restructure social and economic life in this country. Not only, as you pointed out, is that going to be very hard to push through both to the populace and within the parties themselves, but it is way too hand wavy. Every grand political idea has promised, "just do this and it will fix everything". But there's always unintended consequences, and in a policy this far-reaching, those possible consequences are wide-ranging. It just isn't going to happen without some massive shift in political opinion in the next few decades.