text:  One of the benefits of our whole federal system, at least in theory, is that it provides some insulation from bad government. If your state is being run to the ground by incompetent politicians, then you can just move to another state. And if a local politician is doing a terrible job, then at least he's not wrecking the rest of the country, too. The damage is contained. That's the idea, anyway. And there are about a million reasons why that's just not true anymore.