Centralization can be efficient -- it is almost never effective.
Competing visions provide clarity and keep the system honest, an overarching bureaucracy clouds the view and hides the flaws (see DoD vs. War and Navy for examples).
Not to mention that centralization overrides the system of checks and balances that is the cornerstone of our national governing processes. (Or is that what you just said, Ken?)
Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught. — Sydney J. Harris
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