At the Constitutional Convention, Roger Sherman twice submitted a clause that reserved the police power to the States, “that no State shall without its consent be affected in its internal police, or deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.” The last clause made the Constitution, but alas, not the first. It is a shame his police power clause did not make the cut, maybe it would have made a difference, but then again, the Left are expert at twisting plain language to their purpose, like the innocuous commerce clause.
Wickard is constitutional fantasy. Until Scotus is willing to pitch 80 years of rot, to scrape off the many layers of flawed judicial scabs atop our Constitution, we are screwed.
Actually, I don't think you can. Long ago realizing that I needed standing by which to bring a case against the environmental regulation monster, I patented the first such free-market business method. Still, I lacked acknowledgement for technical expertise. So I've spent the last ten years, much of it on our hands and knees, restoring our land to a level of purity in native plant habitat never before achieved by the bureaucrats. We're there.
I'm just starting to get that acknowledgement at least verbally, but what do you know who is in charge of controlling whether or not I get to publish my results but the very State bureaucrats, NGO flunkies, and grant-hustling academics dependent upon the system. I'll beat them eventually, because I've got what they know very well they could never do. It's too much work.
As an adjunct to that work was learning a perspective that, together with my background in product development and manufacturing in both the military and medical device business, rendered me uniquely qualified to discover a long lost Biblical paradigm, one that transforms our understanding of the Bible. I know, it sounds weird, but it's true. They key to Israel's national survival was the Sabbath for the Land. How it was supposed to work was long lost and remains undiscovered to Biblical scholarship.
OK, so as to "frustration," try telling Christians and Jews that the Mosaic Law mandates that they be prepared to release and abandon their land for one year out of seven to be left to be managed by the poor. Try telling them that it was the key element in a system of national civil defense based upon a militia trained in guerilla warfare. Try telling them that the system explains much of what seems metaphorical in the New Testament, particularly the Sermon on the Mount. Try telling them that the Cain and Abel story is a metaphorical teaching on how agro-urban civilization destroyed its pastoral progenitors by assimilation (not by conflict), and that it predicts the temporality of every agro-urban civilization thereafter.
The Sabbath for the Land was the foundation of a remarkable system of national defense and social welfare that has never been fully understood, until now.
OK so here's the frustration: You've got this amazing system in which people supposedly already believe... all you have to do is explain it to them. Yet once they start to realize that it's true, they won't read it any further. Just like ancient Israel before the exile, they just don't want to DO it.