Posted on 09/18/2015 10:54:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The biggest problem in American government today is the hyper-nationalization of government. Even in the middle of Republican presidential politics, even when every Republican candidate claims to be a "conservative," the myopic fixation on federal government resolution of every conceivable problem dominates everything, and the centralization of all power into our Potomac cesspool is largely ignored.
The problem, of course, is Washington. America is brought down not by awful governance in New York City or Chicago. America easily survives over-taxation in Massachusetts or over-regulation in California. The beauty of American government has always been federalism, the retention of most governmental power in sovereign states and not in a national government.
When states govern badly, people flee and businesses leave. Experiments in education or health care or commercial laws or other areas historically left to states can demonstrate success or failure without the totalitarian control of federal power or the power of printing money to fund reckless and wasteful spending.
Republican candidates ought to be making this the centerpiece of true revolutionary reform. Sending power back to the states from which it has been unconstitutionally robbed by federal politicians is a reform that grants everyone who simply wants to be left alone, to live as he chooses, the power to make that wish come true.
The rise of "social conservatism" is simply the natural response of ordinary Americans to extinguishment of the right of states, rather than Washington, to address what issues government ought to address in our lives. Before Roe v. Wade, there was no national right to life movement – not because Americans favored abortion, but because Americans accepted the right of each state to regulate abortion.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Good article. Federalism has come to mean “all power emanates from Washington”, which was not the original concept of a federal government.
Here is a good companion article.
History and Danger of Administrative Law
http://theconservativecitizen.com/2014/10/01/the-history-and-danger-of-administrative-law/
This also why the pseudo tough talk from Kasich et al ‘I will defund X if they don’t comply with Y’ is simply extortion ie more power concentrated in DC and in the executive branch.
Thanks for the link. Bookmarked
True. And this has been the problem for 80 years now, increasingly so. Social Security, Medicare, Roe v. Wade (abortion), Obergefell v. Hodges ("gay" "marriage")--all these are examples of the federal government going way beyond its constitutional bounds.
TRUE... the federal government HAS MADE the States VASSALS of itself..
When the opposite should be true..
When the States are not Sovereign.. then we have a Democracy AND NOT a Republic..
Sedition AND Treason of the HIGHEST ORDER...
Regime change.. Coup D’Etat.. a revolution.. a quite CIVIL WAR..
AND republicans DID NOTHING.. nothing.. don’t even recognize it happened..
BECAUSE it’s not going to Happen... IT DID HAPPEN..
America has BEEN changed from a Republic to a Democracy.. NOW... not will be..
FEW there be... that even cares.. or knows the difference..
America has been DUMBED DOWN THAT MUCH..
Forget it, Bruce. The republic has been dead since at least Raich v Gonzales, where the Commerce Clause interpretation was upheld such as to permit federal government, to paraphrase a dissenting Justice, to regulate commerce down to the level of church suppers.
You’re living in a nation-state. The difference is akin to that between a multi-compartmented dirigible and a one-celled blimp.
Hey, did you say X and Y, as in XY? Isn’t that sexist of you? Don’t you know if we start putting XX and XY on public restroom doors people will start demanding gene samples prior to entry?
(actually, just wanted to compliment your tagline, not advocate for xylbgtpdq doors :)
the biggest problem today... and I will get a lot of flack for this... is social(ist)conservatives..
they do not want the states to regulate anything..
they want the fed to force their views and opinions on the public..
much like the left (socialist and communist)..
socialist is as socialist does, and it does not matter which side of the political spectrum it comes from..
Ah thanks - I only wish a fraction of the ‘good cause/good idea’ types would practice such consideration.
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