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Originally Posted by Ea
Yees.... but that was King George's government of over 200 years ago. I wouldn't want myself to live under a government as it was in Denmark at that time. But things have evolved quite a bit since then - to put it mildly. In my 'world', I see my government serving me, or us - it's not them against me or us. That's why I don't understand the fear, it seems groundless.
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Let me put it in a different scale.
Denmark is approximately 160 x 160 KM (100 x 100 miles for the English system people) in area. it's population is around 5.5 million. That makes it very homogeneous. You know your government, you know your bureaucrats. Everybody faces the same weather, the same roads, the same questions. It's easy to run any system like that efficiently. There aren't many widely different needs.
Now let's take that place that everybody love to hate - Texas. I live in the second biggest metroplex in Texas. It's 150 x 100 KM (90 x 60 miles EMS), with a population of around the same (or more). the total population of Texas is around 25 Million. (Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex + Houston + San Antonio + Austin account for 15 million of that, in around 2 percent of the land.) Yet I can show you 500 x 500 KM blocks of Texas with a total population of under 250,000 with half of that in a small city. So....
How do you balance say, the transportation needs of widely scattered rural people with those of highly densely urbanized people? The needs of people who actually need to protect themselves from wild animals versus those who would feel safer with no weapons at all? And everybody
certain that their way of life is the only one that matters, and
willing to cause as much collateral damage in other peoples lives (that they don't even acknowledge exist (or matter)) as it takes to implement
their vision of how people's lives should be run?
And then multiply by 50..... Welcome to the American political scene....