[HLPhat]

>>The whole point is that the system worked because it was not run by distant, centralized authority.

Why did it stop working then?

[Ohioan]

It was replaced in stages by politicians such as FDR & LBJ in our era, seeking to pose as public benefactors. It is a process similar to what the crack pots have done to medicine since LBJ--replacing the over two thousand year old oath under which Doctors never refused treatment to one who could not pay, as a matter of honor, with the present materialist corruption. Or consider the decline in the quality of public education, as direction became centralized outside the neighborhood.

And if you do not think public education has been dumbed down over the past century & a quarter, compare McGuffey's Sixth Reader with the 12th Grade reading level in a contemporary urban high school.

Of course, we are not producing people of the Founding Fathers' level, to lead us back onto the right track. Trump for all his sometimes rough forms of expression, shows the closest thing to actually understanding the dynamics of human interaction, that we have seen in a long--very long--time. God Bless his efforts. It may be our last chance to salvage a heritage that has been systematically attacked by the enemies of liberty, for several generations.