Adam Gurri

Similarly, what often happens is if you have fairly liberal laws at the national level, you can have a lot of state or local level things that are pretty illiberal.

And frankly, a lot of problems to this day in America are local problems.

Policing, when we talk about policing in this country, we have one of the most decentralized policing systems in the world.

You know, it's

The British, the French, they have national police.

A lot of countries do.

And when you have very decentralized policing, you get some places that are very professionalized, right?

And you get other places that just are not.

And also you get some places where someone is completely abusive as a cop and known to be and gets fired.

And he just goes a few towns over and takes up a job there, right?

So it's more difficult to hold accountable.

The variance is wider and the downside is very low.

Yeah, so essentially those are the failure modes on both ends.

Oh, 100%.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Definitely.

Yes.

My personal belief is that we should move both of those things to the state level everywhere.

Yeah, I mean, I think just from a theoretical point of view, in as much as there are tensions, and I don't think there always are, because I think there's a lot of people that get lumped into identity politics as a label that are fairly straightforwardly liberal in what they're trying to do.