Progressives need to reject their central government heritage and embrace federalism. California's Jerry Brown has.

David Brooks' Future of the American Left misses the point about the current state of the flattened hierarchy structure. Giant top down one size fits legislation from Washington is doomed to fail. During FDR created central government using top down pyramids developed by the Robber Baron's using the telegraph as a means of communication to centralize business. Today's internet media does the opposite, it decentralizes and flattens so as to make elite one size fits all solutions unsatisfactory and local control necessary. Progressives need to reject their central government heritage and embrace federalism.  California's Jerry Brown has.