If people want to serve in government, they need to be far away from cosmopolitan coastal cities and in the middle of our country's plains. They need to be detached from the elites of the world and focused on service. My suggestion is: between Kearney and North Platte, NE. Right dead center of the country, also a great defensive position. What's yours?
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Just be mindful that any capitol will attract those desiring to gain from , feed off, manipulate by association to the capital and the people and organizations (bureaucracies) of power. I do see the value in periodic reshuffling. Vigilance from generation to generation, parents to children is a requirement til the end of the age.
A wise man once said: ....that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
As a result, a continual deliberate effort to resist this trend is required.
I think this is a fair point. Also, it's endemic that an administrative center would attract the second group. Moving the capitol to the hinterlands would definitely reshuffle things, but how do you manage the continual moving of that center?