A POLITICAL SPECTRUM THAT MAKES SENSE !!!!

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Source: http://politicalclassdismissed.com/?p=619

Written by James Ostrowski on December 5, 2006 – 10:23 pm -




The old political spectrum failed because there wasn’t a single measurable characteristic that served to determine one’s place on the spectrum. In this new spectrum, there is such a criterion: one’s degree of support for centralizing or decentralizing political power.

In my view, decentralism is genetically liked to populism as is centralism inextricably linked to elitism. Decentralism is based on the notion that average people have the ability to run their own lives and their own local governments. Centralization is based on the notion that average people need to be governed by the elites who inevitably gain control of central governments.

The main cause of violence in today’s world is the centralization of power in the hands of strangers in distant capitals. They invariably use their power to impose harmful policies on the politically powerless. Internationally, this has led to numerous civil wars and wars of secession featuring minority groups trying to break away from centralized power. Domestically, the lack of individual freedom and local control lead to hopelessness, despair and frustration and the inability to slough off policies that destroy families and communities and engender violence and crime.