You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.
Zephyr TeachoutWhat I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
Zephyr TeachoutI think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
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