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>Community voice in community matters is bad? Local community decision-making should be removed from local governments?

Yes, pretty much every country that has sane housing policies and gets shit done, like Japan has elevated this to the national level with the power to break down obstructionism. Local decision making is notoriously corrupt. Be it the police, school boards, some union run rampart, the mob, homeowner associations or some business cartel, it's always local.

In fact if you want to pinpoint the central issue that paralyzes development in America it's the parochialism.




> parochialism

Thanks for the new word!




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