What if the solution is to disempower the national elites who think they've got all the answers?

Goldberg: To heal government, go local

By Jonah Goldberg

The bleating about broken government and partisanship continues. Why can't those boobs in Washington agree on anything? We're constantly told that the way to fix the country is to dethrone the left and right and empower the middle. Handing things over to these middling mincers and half-a-loafers — Americans Elect, No Labels, the "gangs" of six or 14, conservative Democrats and liberalRepublicans — is supposed to be the answer to all of our problems. 

The best solution to our current mess might be disempowering the national elite and allowing more decision-making at the state and local levels.

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