In North America the ability to exercise good governance has become almost untenable. This resonates from the Municipal to the Federal level. Despite the ever ballooning budgets and staff, everything seems to operate on the thinnest of margins. The whole system is ready to collapse at all times so the mildest situation can easily spiral into a crisis and it often does.
Government is about power, nothing else. Much of the practical stuff they seem to do is to serve power, to give the appearance of being indispensable.
Yet Canada was built by a bunch of pioneering people from Britain and comparable nations who needed little in the way of government support.
As for emergency. We all know once a government has emergency powers it will be tempted to declare emergencies. Again, this is because the goal is exercise of power not solving problems.
The only antidote is localism. Most problems happen within walking distance of your house. Pot holes in roads, the local school needs a new roof, junkies in your local park. None of it needs a massive bureaucracy or overbearing government.
Bottom-up starvation of government is the approach. Bankrupt them. Limit their powers. Have a local constitution that forbids interference. And relegate the national government to a handful of genuinely national projects like national defence. Everything else you do closer to home.
Basically an information campaign that educates people to recognize central government is to be avoided at all costs.
As with many issues these days the more you “cry wolf” the more likely people will see SOEs as just a part of daily life. Therefore, we will ignore them going forward.
Example: after over selling the Covid vaccines it looks like early childhood vaccination for all illnesses is on the decline (at least in the USA).
While I consider myself an environmentalist I am tired of all the SOEs and the over the top screaming about the end of the world regarding climate change.
Government is about power, nothing else. Much of the practical stuff they seem to do is to serve power, to give the appearance of being indispensable.
Yet Canada was built by a bunch of pioneering people from Britain and comparable nations who needed little in the way of government support.
As for emergency. We all know once a government has emergency powers it will be tempted to declare emergencies. Again, this is because the goal is exercise of power not solving problems.
The only antidote is localism. Most problems happen within walking distance of your house. Pot holes in roads, the local school needs a new roof, junkies in your local park. None of it needs a massive bureaucracy or overbearing government.
Bottom-up starvation of government is the approach. Bankrupt them. Limit their powers. Have a local constitution that forbids interference. And relegate the national government to a handful of genuinely national projects like national defence. Everything else you do closer to home.
Basically an information campaign that educates people to recognize central government is to be avoided at all costs.
As with many issues these days the more you “cry wolf” the more likely people will see SOEs as just a part of daily life. Therefore, we will ignore them going forward.
Example: after over selling the Covid vaccines it looks like early childhood vaccination for all illnesses is on the decline (at least in the USA).
While I consider myself an environmentalist I am tired of all the SOEs and the over the top screaming about the end of the world regarding climate change.
It seems every level of government has been weaponized against the people. And with the number of Gov employees, that’s a ton of control.