We may be in the early stages of reversing the trend toward increases in the size, scope, and centralization of government, with authority devolving on more localized environments, closer to where people live and work. More and more people seem to be increasingly unwilling to live by current government decision-making processes.
我们或许正处在政府规模、范围和集权程度不断下降的早期，权力被移交给距离民众的生活和工作更近、更本地化的政府。越来越多的人似乎越来越不愿接受目前政府的决策程序。即使在民主多数执政的前提下，少数人也认为并没有保护他们的经济、文化或宗教权利和利益。民众分离、下放和独立的呼声越来越普遍就是这种结构性变化的表现之一。