I'm inclined to think Washington, D.C., constrains, frames, levels, directs, empowers, and topples -- all of which can be important. In contrast, the west coast of the United States -- and many corners of the country outside the Beltway -- builds, innovates, creates, launches, discovers, struggles, figures out stuff, and designs the future.
Anyone who has spent time in Silicon Valley or Seattle, Portland, San Diego, and more will quickly feel that innovators, scientists and engineers change the world far more than those of us in Washington.
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Author:Steve Clemons
