One of my hopes with Coronavirus financial woes is it will lead to a dissolving of local governments 🏛️

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One of my hopes with Coronavirus financial woes is it will lead to a dissolving of local governments 🏛️

For much too long there have been too many tiny communities of a few hundred people, all with their own tiny local government. Slapped on top of that is a county government and a state government. It’s bureaucratic and bad for the people.

In the era of chain restaurants and stores, automobiles that can travel through dozens of municipalities per hour, centralized media and instant world wide communication, local government is a quaint throwback to an earlier era. A standardized regional government would have far less duplication of services, less taxes and a more just system that can follow one set of rules that protect civil liberties and rights.

Some states have more standardization and fewer local governments. Some places have one bus service for the whole state, one highway department for all roads, one school district, one system for sitting and planning development, and one system of justice. The more consolidation the better government could operate.

Don’t fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 or we’ll retaliate

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Democrats warn GOP: Don’t fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 or we’ll retaliate

WASHINGTON — Democrats are warning Republicans not to fill a possible Supreme Court vacancy this year after denying President Barack Obama the chance in 2016, saying it would embolden a push on the left to add seats to the court whenever they regain power.

"We knew basically they were lying in 2016, when they said, 'Oh, we can't do this because it's an election year.' We knew they didn't want to do it because it was President Obama," Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said in an interview.

When Henry Wallace Warned of ‘American Fascism’ – The American Prospect

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When Henry Wallace Warned of ‘American Fascism’ – The American Prospect

Building on the success of the New Deal, FDR added Wallace, initially his agriculture secretary, as vice president in 1940, dumping segregationist Democrat John Nance Garner. Roosevelt felt that Wallace could succeed him and ultimately continue on the work of the New Deal. More importantly, FDR needed Wallace’s energy and vision to help make the case to the American public to back the war effort.

As vice president, Wallace spent the war years touring the U.S. with a vigor that the wheelchair-bound FDR couldn’t, arguing that in order to truly win the war against fascism abroad, the United States must take on racism, sexism, and economic inequality at home, or risk the rise of a new “American fascism.”

In case you are wondering

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In case you are wondering… 🌪️

It seems like the tornado has missed me in Albany but it seems like the heaviest rain ☔ today was after I picked my truck up from the shop after doing the oil change.