Stephan:   Yet further proof of the toxic anti-life effect of the Corporate Theocratic Right. A certain segment of the country, about a third, seems on the evidence, to lack the capacity to think more than a step or two ahead. The ideology of small government, and that government is bad sabotages what ought to be an obvious commonsense view: That the planet is in danger as a result of human activities, and those activities must be moderated to support wellness. Some of how that must be done requires comprehensive governance at the Federal level.  That's why the Founders wrote the Constitution the way they did. They distributed power because they had directly experienced living under a distant dictator in a frontier world. They knew first hand what it took for a society that was constantly morphing to survive and prosper. The American revolution was unique because it was not an uprising of the masses, it was a rebellion of the managers. That's why they changed the rhythm and form of the local post-colonial world as little as possible. Essentially just at the top. Locally the same place you went to register a land sale was the same place after the war, often manned by the same person. This obstructionism on the part of the Republicans is literally dangerous.