This tension between the various levels of government is impossible to avoid in any nation larger than the Vatican. Unless we break America up into city-states, this "hypocrisy" problem is a structural fact. We can't have a representative republic without it, so let's just get over it.
What we could hope for is that our politicians drop their whining about hypocrisy and just state that they think their way is best and that they are going to try to force their views into law at their particular legislative level.
What's fun is to watch the politicians' definitions of hypocrisy change as they work their way up the governmental ladder from local to state to federal office.
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BayardDonahoo writes:
This tension between the various levels of government is impossible to avoid in any nation larger than the Vatican. Unless we break America up into city-states, this "hypocrisy" problem is a structural fact. We can't have a representative republic without it, so let's just get over it.
What we could hope for is that our politicians drop their whining about hypocrisy and just state that they think their way is best and that they are going to try to force their views into law at their particular legislative level.
What's fun is to watch the politicians' definitions of hypocrisy change as they work their way up the governmental ladder from local to state to federal office.
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