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Well, that’s one aspect of what’s called, reducing government and modifying government, to be more precise. Another aspect of it is what’s called “devolution”, reducing and moving governmental power from the Federal to the State level. And that has a kind of a rationale which you hear all over the time and place. Like, for example, there was an op-ed couple of weeks ago in the New York Times by John Cogan, Hoover Institute at Stanford, who has pointed out what he called a philosophical issue that divides the Democrats from the Republicans. The philosophical issue is that the Democrats believe in big government and entitlements, and the Republicans believe in getting the power down closer to the people, you know, to the States – cause they’re kind of populist types.
Well, it takes about maybe three seconds’ thought to realize that moving power down to the States, in funding and so on, is just moving it away from the people, for a perfectly elementary reason: there’s a hidden part of the system, of the power system, that you’re not supposed to know about, or think about, and that’s private power.

The text discusses the concept of reducing government power, particularly through devolution, which shifts authority from the Federal to State level. It outlines a philosophical divide where Democrats favor big government and entitlements while Republicans advocate for localized power. However, it suggests that this shift may overlook the influence of private power, ultimately distancing authority from the public.