The Biggest Lever

clipped from www.qando.net Largely because so much power has accrued at higher levels of government, people increasingly turn to the impersonal and ignorant forces of those higher levels to handle their problems.  Today, the federal government has so much power, reaching down to the most local possible decisions, that people focus an inordinate amount of their attention and aspirations on who controls it and what they do with it.  Everyone’s fate is determined by whose collective hand controls the Biggest Lever. I cannot stress enough how dangerous a development this is. Making everything a national issue has poisoned the national debate.  It has contributed to making politics personal, and it’s why so many people have become emotionally invested in the person of the President. Bottom line: it is difficult to tolerate your neighbor’s difference of opinion if his opinion controls your life.  It has become too difficult to mind one’s own business.