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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2511906" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>"<em>The ever worsening polarization of American politics—demonstrated and accentuated by the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/09/trump-shocks-the-world.html" target="_blank">Trump victory</a>—is now an undeniable fact of our daily life. Yet rather than allowing the guilty national parties to continue indulging political brinkmanship, we should embrace a strong, constitutional solution to accommodating our growing divide: a return to local control.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Such an approach would allow, within some limits, local constituencies to follow their own course, much as the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/26/congressional-gridlock-is-not-what-founding-fathers-had-in-mind.html" target="_blank">Founding Fathers</a> suggested, without shaking the fundamentals of the federal union. Localism, as I label this approach, would address the sentiments on both right and left by reversing the consolidation of central power in Washington.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>What Americans across the political spectrum need to recognize is that centralizing power does not promote national unity, but ever harsher division.</em>"</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/04/the-real-answer-to-polarization-local-control.html?via=desktop&source=facebook" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">How the Left and Right Can Learn to Love Localism: The Constitutional Cure for polarization</span></strong></span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2511906, member: 2189"] "[I]The ever worsening polarization of American politics—demonstrated and accentuated by the [URL='http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/09/trump-shocks-the-world.html']Trump victory[/URL]—is now an undeniable fact of our daily life. Yet rather than allowing the guilty national parties to continue indulging political brinkmanship, we should embrace a strong, constitutional solution to accommodating our growing divide: a return to local control. Such an approach would allow, within some limits, local constituencies to follow their own course, much as the [URL='http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/26/congressional-gridlock-is-not-what-founding-fathers-had-in-mind.html']Founding Fathers[/URL] suggested, without shaking the fundamentals of the federal union. Localism, as I label this approach, would address the sentiments on both right and left by reversing the consolidation of central power in Washington. What Americans across the political spectrum need to recognize is that centralizing power does not promote national unity, but ever harsher division.[/I]" [URL='http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/04/the-real-answer-to-polarization-local-control.html?via=desktop&source=facebook'][COLOR=#ff0000][B][SIZE=6]How the Left and Right Can Learn to Love Localism: The Constitutional Cure for polarization[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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