Centralization vs. decentralization: Not a "liberal-conservative" issue

[BrainGlutton]

@smiling_bandit

And yet, somehow, the years of the greatest growth and success (relative to existing developments) were in those years when people voted most clearly for their locality and not some far-off national ideal.

What period are you talking about? America’s greatest period of growth and success was that after WWII – when federal power as expanded in the New Deal was taken for granted.