tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post6793445779531362607..comments2024-03-23T19:16:01.555-07:00Comments on Can it happen here?: What if democracy and individual freedom seem incompatible?janinsanfranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-26329234205653457532018-06-12T10:45:22.680-07:002018-06-12T10:45:22.680-07:00Brandon -- thanks for the link. :-)
To you both:...Brandon -- thanks for the link. :-) <br /><br />To you both: I recently read someone trying, not for the first time, to explain why most statewide office holders in California come from the San Francisco area, even though most people live elsewhere, especially LA. This idea was that San Francisco has such intense, participatory, highly developed, local politics that pols who come up here simply become very good, for better and worse, at working a democratic system. I found this an interesting idea.janinsanfranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-62195844110261061672018-06-12T10:28:39.371-07:002018-06-12T10:28:39.371-07:00Off-topic, but here's a post on political ads ...Off-topic, but <a href="http://www.ilind.net/2018/06/06/political-ads-in-hawaii-are-mostly-fluff/#comments" rel="nofollow">here's a post</a> on political ads in Hawaii. One of the commenters thinks "Hawaii would be such a hoot with more SF-style politics."<br /><br /><br /><br />Brandonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-68908245009425950862018-06-12T10:11:04.069-07:002018-06-12T10:11:04.069-07:00it would help if we had good, responsible local go...it would help if we had good, responsible local governments. They are more accessible, but as you have pointed out here many times, a lot of our local governments are not honest or doing the right things. I've heard it also from businessmen who had to deal with corrupt city halls to get building permits, etc. We seem to overlook our local governments as if they don't matter. Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-52548239835328521802018-06-12T09:12:04.101-07:002018-06-12T09:12:04.101-07:00Rain -- I think you are on to something in that a ...Rain -- I think you are on to something in that a country can simply be too large for accessible governance. We don't know how to do it so that people feel and are heard at the scale we are attempting it.janinsanfranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-27350520800949918482018-06-12T08:08:11.090-07:002018-06-12T08:08:11.090-07:00The problem the left and right have today is what ...The problem the left and right have today is what they want freedom about is different. So liberals on campuses want to shut down speakers with whom they disagree. So conservatives want a hardware store to be able to deny service to gays. I suspect that the more people you end up with, the less freedom is really possible and then the question is who gets to define what individual freedoms will be... Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.com