{"id":79837,"date":"2021-10-29T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79837"},"modified":"2021-10-29T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T11:50:00","slug":"not-invented-here-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79837","title":{"rendered":"Not Invented Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the great, largely untold, stories of World War 2 was that in the post-war era, the American occupation made such an impression on German society that they ended up taking Federalism to heart to a degree that Americans would feel jealous of, if most of them knew better.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while it&#8217;s not a specific point in the article I&#8217;m linking, I&#8217;m going to go out on a short, sturdy limb and say that their relatively strict observance of federalism has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/10\/four-measures-are-helping-germany-beat-covid-19\/620466\/\">helped them keep a pragmatic approach to Covid<\/a> that has largely eluded our centralized public health bureaucracies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Untrammeled central government hurt Germany terribly, 80 years ago &#8211; far worse than Covid has harmed the US.  So far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The power of federalism, not only to help people who don&#8217;t like each other much to co-exist politically, but to sand down the rougher edges of government stupidity, is a lesson this country would be blessed to learn, while we can. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great, largely untold, stories of World War 2 was that in the post-war era, the American occupation made such an impression on German society that they ended up taking Federalism to heart to a degree that Americans would feel jealous of, if most of them knew better. And while it&#8217;s not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,30,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-liberty","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79867,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79837\/revisions\/79867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}