BobKerns

What can we citizens do, to overcome governmental resistance to transparency? The issue ends up buried under all the other partisan concerns -- yet every aspect of government would be so much better if transparent.

How can we overcome the static friction and get the ball rolling?

"You expect the mighty to willingly let themselves be kept accountable?" -- nope, indeed.

The trend I see is for ever advancing centralization. Just take education -- NCLB binds local districts with strings of money. And here in California, the funds flow through the state, which raids them when the state runs short, leaving the local districts dependent on the whims of the legislature.

What sort of idea, actions, movement, can reverse that.

Because every time we centralize, every time we federalize, we also dilute and divide and average out any dissent or oversight.

"Too big to fail" is a symptom, I believe, that the power, once divided, is pulling itself back together.