Federal Flaw

If you're like me you are tired of both the Republicans and the Democrats. Washington D.C. seems increasingly out of touch. But it is a lot easier for national media companies to cover the politics of D.C. than it is to cover state politics, so we get fed a consistent media diet of national politics. But the United States is a huge country made up of diverse people, so the idea that one central group can form solutions that work for all of us is flawed in the extreme.

Our founding fathers new this, even when we only had 13 states, and they took steps to limit federal powers. The main proponents of such views were called Federalists (which is now ironic), and I feel we need to return to some of primary ideas, like making sure states have the ability to effect their own populations.

Living in Texas, I am appalled at the idea of supporting federal decisions that may very well hurt our state. And being one of the few states that gives more money to the federal government than it receives, Texas is in a different position than say, Michigan. Now, Detroit residents may not want state responsibility to be enhanced much, as their city's problems are beyond the reach of any single state, but how responsible should I be for their poor local decisions?

The popular slogan "Think Globally, Act Locally" should be applied immediately to politics. The alternative, hoping that Washington D.C. comes to the rescue, has proven to be about as successful as trying to win the lottery.