Quote Originally Posted by Viking View Post
So you move power from one small group of people to another small group of people, effectively concentrating the power at the hands of a smaller number of people overall. Then what?
Aha, you made the wrong assumption. Eroding concentration of power is the broader principle here. A purely statist or managerial approach runs the risk you describe, but the trend today is to emphasize the transition to decentralized and communitarian organization of society. Without beginning to debate the timescale or balance of powers between local and megapolitan, the goal is exactly to diffuse practical power into more and more hands.

No one is unaccountable.
OK, but no one is truly powerful when set against the transcendent might of the Divine. Ask this guy -

Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
They too can be held accountable, though the "actionable threshold" for an effort to 'bring them to justice' would be very high.
he knows his Jesus stuff.