We all forgot about the participatory democracy platitudes shortly after high school civics class, until something happens that government should have done something about. Some things are so precious, so sacred, so life sustaining, so important that we cannot leave these things untended, unguarded, unexamined, in the hands of government. Specifically, the lives of my children, your children, your life, my life, and the lives of all those we love. And, we cannot trust things so important to the government, because government forgets. You do not.
Government is best is administered by real people.
People who have not lost touch. I started becoming suspicious of the wisdom of government preemption when I first went to Washington, D.C. as a White House Fellow. I was assigned to the Attorney General of the United States of America and served as his Special Assistant for criminal and prosecution matters. There was a meeting in Washington, D.C., of the AG and sundry assistants and deputies working at the Justice Department headquarters, almost none of whom had actually been street prosecutors. They were debating some new policies for the field Assistant U.S. Attorneys-the several thousand of us who were actually out there prosecuting the federal criminals of America, and prescribing operational rules which made absolutely no sense to anyone who actually had to conduct a federal investigation and prosecution.