In What Ways Has Centralisation Failed Us? ecoTrain's QOTW

Centralisation vs Decentralization is a question of where authority should rest. Should a small group decide for everyone or should everyone decide for themselves.

With a business, it makes sense that an owner, for instance, has the right to make decisions for the entire company. But a government is not a business and it doesn't own anything and yet it has the power as the centralised authority for an entire nation.

The United States is a prime example of how centralisation has failed us but it's the same in most countries. The founding fathers decided that the country needed a Government to, as the Preamble states,

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

That sounds great, justice, tranquility, liberty, what's not to like about that?

So, they wrote the Constitution to clearly define the limits to the power this Government, this central authority has and exactly what it's supposed to do with it.

What could go wrong? Everything.

From Charley Reese's final column, an excerpt:

"One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country."

and

"Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party."

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-charley-reese-545-people-1984-073111-story.html

Well, we ARE 23 trillion in debt which pretty much blows the Preamble out of the water so to speak. What happened?

Follow the money.

The decision makers, that centralised authority we created are getting richer by accepting bribes which they say is legal when they call it lobbying. What the people get from it is a loss of freedom to decide things for themselves.

But what possible motive could they have for all the wars? Which one of you voted for that? It's clear to me that the Government is under the direction of someone(s), some thing that is not us.

That's a vulnerability of centralisation in that it can be bought out from under the people, overthrown. Andrew Jackson understood this as he was a first hand witness to the infiltration of agents from the Bank of England into our political system in their attempt to gain control over our money.

Centralisation disempowers the people and makes them less likely to interfere with the interests of the wealthy. Excluding the poor from positions in government is a means to protect the wealthy.

Centralisation begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
(took liberties with a Thomas Jefferson quote)

It stems the tide of creativity born in the inspiration of a free spirit.

Centralisation strikes at that very core of our sovereignty as individuals, makes slaves of us all.

It has failed us in every way, it is responsible for every problem we have. It only serves the rich.