As we bumble along policy-wise the genie's out of the bottle and a high degree of centralization at least as a baseline is probably not something that can be rolled back. But when it comes to creativity in healthcare for instance, Obamacare was an enormous missed opportunity that with a more "laboratory of democracy" approach could have …
As we bumble along policy-wise the genie's out of the bottle and a high degree of centralization at least as a baseline is probably not something that can be rolled back. But when it comes to creativity in healthcare for instance, Obamacare was an enormous missed opportunity that with a more "laboratory of democracy" approach could have accomplished a lot more for a lot people with less expense and bureaucracy. Instead of entrenching an insurance model basically designed to cover the professional middle and upper classes rather than universal, they could have promoted more of a traveling health care fair model for basic check-ups, vaccinations, nipping problems in the bud, etc. for poorer and less dense states with the insurance model perhaps a better fit for more urban professionalized states. In general, trying to think less moralistically about how to approach the idiosyncracies of different places and more in terms of interest group politics and city machines and so forth rather than simple good vs. evil is pretty much the only viable way to bumble forward.
Point taken. But I *suspect* that not only is not the case that there cannot be any unwinding, I *suspect* that unwinding is our likely future. My take on the USA's political economy is that is still very complicated, its just that it is a latent complexity because there exists an equilibrium in the political economy across not just the large special interests groups, but also a great many out of sight and out of mind smaller ones spread across our social and economic landscape. And they are all doing either well or well enough. But if capital "G" Globalism either falls or at east erodes by a large degree, and then the federal government can no longer do its magic three of large and perpetual budget deficits, large and perpetual trade deficits**, and low interest rates; all with high goods availability and very little inflation, well, if that money dries up, I suspect so will that equilibrium and we'll see that latent complexity activated very quickly and both sectoral and geographic interests expressing themselves politically in way they haven't in several decades, possibly in some cases in ways they haven't since the 1930s, and then we'll have some not insignificant amount of decentralization in at least some of the key economic spheres
As we bumble along policy-wise the genie's out of the bottle and a high degree of centralization at least as a baseline is probably not something that can be rolled back. But when it comes to creativity in healthcare for instance, Obamacare was an enormous missed opportunity that with a more "laboratory of democracy" approach could have accomplished a lot more for a lot people with less expense and bureaucracy. Instead of entrenching an insurance model basically designed to cover the professional middle and upper classes rather than universal, they could have promoted more of a traveling health care fair model for basic check-ups, vaccinations, nipping problems in the bud, etc. for poorer and less dense states with the insurance model perhaps a better fit for more urban professionalized states. In general, trying to think less moralistically about how to approach the idiosyncracies of different places and more in terms of interest group politics and city machines and so forth rather than simple good vs. evil is pretty much the only viable way to bumble forward.
Point taken. But I *suspect* that not only is not the case that there cannot be any unwinding, I *suspect* that unwinding is our likely future. My take on the USA's political economy is that is still very complicated, its just that it is a latent complexity because there exists an equilibrium in the political economy across not just the large special interests groups, but also a great many out of sight and out of mind smaller ones spread across our social and economic landscape. And they are all doing either well or well enough. But if capital "G" Globalism either falls or at east erodes by a large degree, and then the federal government can no longer do its magic three of large and perpetual budget deficits, large and perpetual trade deficits**, and low interest rates; all with high goods availability and very little inflation, well, if that money dries up, I suspect so will that equilibrium and we'll see that latent complexity activated very quickly and both sectoral and geographic interests expressing themselves politically in way they haven't in several decades, possibly in some cases in ways they haven't since the 1930s, and then we'll have some not insignificant amount of decentralization in at least some of the key economic spheres