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So how are decisions made?
Individuals make their own decisions. People are bound together by a common reason. The tea party protests are a good example of this.
I agree with you on your other points and
>>2 's as well. The thing is, the political climate and culture is going to have to have a drastic change in order to take government back to either a sane size or its constitutional size. I don't know if this was attempted in history before; the citizens attempting to limit the size of their expanding corrupting government, and became successful in doing so.