This type quote has beeny go to when people ask about my political beliefs.

I just say "I will not seek to control you, you will seek to control me" everything else is downstream from here

With respect to Robert… Switches exist.

Nobody said that this is what politics *must* focus on. Governance is about high level organization and alignment. This can be about breadth of coordination area/scale. There is no reason why exactly *people* have to be the focus.

It seems to me that the ridiculous amount of focus on people is a bad sign.

For example, manage roads primarily at municipality level, with some minimal alignment for edge cases on higher levels. And manage traffic signs nationally for consistency.

It doesn't need to be about people. That's not politics. That's perversion of power.

Then there is the subgroup of people who *want* to be controlled.