The local thieves, no goods and scoundrels you know are less dangerous than the ones that collect at the puss-filled cyst of central government. Over time, they become isolated and insulated from anything but money, power and influence which the collected dispered citizens last.
They may like it now, but if it is allowed to continue and to fester, they’ll be sorry.
” the dispersed citizens do not have.”
I don’t think they’ll be sorry. National government mostly causes war, and lives to impose rules that would never be tolerated at a local level. Good for spain.