If you ever listen to podcasts I’d encourage you to listen to this one.HooDat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 4:50 pmComing off a "sabbatical" so I haven't seen your views.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 3:26 pm I've written a whole lot about DeSantis on a thread ole Petey began
In thinking about DeSantis, it will touch on my views about governors and my admitted bias toward state power over federal.
Below I throw out a few observations to add a little spice into the pot, see where it takes us.
1. I tend to think that humans thrive locally
2. I believe that one of the things that has made the USA a great country is that we have historically benefited from bottom up governance with (up to) 50 states trying different things and then the other states being able to emulate best practices.
3. Starting with Lincoln, accelerating under FDR & Johnson and gaining even more momentum since Bush (Sr) the federal government has had more and more influence over people's daily lives
4. During that time, Congress has "delegated" more and more of it's authority to the Executive branch resulting in a lot more top-down rather than bottom up governing.
5. An increased disparity in the distribution of income and wealth has coincided with the shift to the increase in centralized power and top-down governing.
6. I believe our country would benefit from state governors being as important as the POTUS particularly when it comes to domestic matters.
7. I also believe that since a major flaw in democracy is that those who get power, had to desire and seek out power - the federal government is not going to willingly give up the power it has collected to itself.
8. Therefore, if more decision making is going to shift back to the states, it is going to require strong governors.
9. Could a state's rights person's strong governor be a federally inclined person's strongman?
To the extent DeSantis is a strong governor and not a strongman - there is a part of me that (even if I determined he was the best politician I knew) would rather see him stay in Florida to continue to (appropriately) be a burr under the saddle of the power hungry in the federal government.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e ... 0569518063
In my rotation it’s called Econtalk hosted by a Econ prof named Russ Robert’s (Brooklyn would hate him as he now works at Shalem, sp?, University in Israel). This shows guest is Nassim Taleb (Black Swan and other author, former trader and 3 PhDs in Econ, Math and Philosophy-type of guy who gets the natural physics of the world innately sitting under a Fig tree in Lebanon but with the technical backing of a lot of education)
Here’s the description of discussion:
A language, a flag, a national anthem and shared history—like a heart that has to pump harder to support a heavier body, the bigger a nation gets, the harder to curate an identity. Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about scale and governance with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Taleb sings the virtues of smaller relative to larger and decentralized as much as possible relative to centralized. Along the way, he provides a framework for Russia's war against Ukraine and explains why the United States has thrived despite its size and scope.