[Lnc-business] The risks of centralized power and what to do about them

[David Demarest]

Roland, I love your concluding comment: 

 

                "My standard comment in North Dakota of what I would do if
Libertarians took over our state government, is that I would have to
immediately start a new anti-Libertarian Party to get the corrupt bastards
kicked out!"

 

Wouldn't your pithy comment be even more applicable at the federal level and
hence a powerful argument for decentralization? Bigger centralized
government (or political party) inevitably results in an exponentially
larger scale of corruption.

 

:)

 

Thoughts?

 

~David Pratt Demarest

 

-----Original Message-----
From: riemers at juno.com [mailto:riemers at juno.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2016 3:37 PM
To: dpdemarest at centurylink.net
Subject: RE: [Lnc-business] The risks of centralized power and what to do
about them

 

We know a weak central organization is not going to do it, as we seen what
happened to the US under the Articles of Confederation.  And our current
party system is not working that well either.  We have a somewhat weak
national organization and we have strong and weak states, and we have some
states at war against either themselves or the national party. 

 

I think - as pointed out - we need a well run national program to tie us all
together as we are really nothing if we were just broken down into local
state parties, and national should facilitate strong state parties.  But it
is also important that state parties support the national party.  

 

I think national needs to supply workable tools for the states to be an
effective organization.   Be it internet support,  to the very basic of
having a boiler plate state constitution and bylaws that each state can
build on to meet its needs.  (Currently a lot of state constitutions and
bylaws appear to be nothing but a joke, that no one really knows and no one
really follows,  and it appears some states just blindly adopted the
wordings from a neighboring state with no regard to state needs or
requirements).

 

So,   national,  hand out the effective tools to the state parties.  And
states,  make membership in national a basic requirement for state
membership.

 

But mostly, we have to really stand for something,  otherwise just winning
elections makes us no better then the other parties.

 

My standard comment in North Dakota of what I would do if Libertarians took
over our state government, is that I would have to immediately start a new
anti-Libertarian Party to get the corrupt bastards kicked out!

 

Roland Riemers ND

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