I just wish it had a different name, maybe Emancipation Day.
Conservatives who are concerned about states' rights (I'm one) should realize that fighting a war over slavery and subsequent racial discrimination provided the Feds an excuse for more meddling in state affairs.
Other than you and me, who still like to think that there's some value in States being entities with their own sphere of governing, are there ACTUALLY any Washington conservatives in power (or running for Washington office) that agree with us?
My entire life, conservatives have made a lot of noise about States' rights, but when a State's rights are weighed against a policy desire, the policy desire ALWAYS wins. See the fight over the California pollution rules during the Trump administration, pro-lifers arguing for a national abortion ban, etc.
I feel like States' rights is something that gets a TON of lip service, but the number of people who actually take the idea seriously are just a handful of Internet commenters, and no-one in Washington.
These days, I file the States' rights proclamations in the same circular mental filing bin as candidates vowing to fix the deficit and take the national debt seriously.
Yeah, we've gone from ensuring basic Constitutional rights to regulating one-acre farm ponds at the Federal level. California can pretty much do as they please until they reach the limit of what the other 300 million citizens are willing to pay for. That is right now becoming the case with vehicles and fuel. And they are doing some backtracking to keep Diablo Canyon operating after they discovered even Californians still like having electricity. They are still pretending to be self-righteous about fossil fuels because they import power from other states. Not much different than USA importations from polluting nations.
The problem there is that Emancipation Day could be a number of dates: the date of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the date for each traitor state being restored to the Union and the slaves in each emancipated.
I just wish it had a different name, maybe Emancipation Day.
Conservatives who are concerned about states' rights (I'm one) should realize that fighting a war over slavery and subsequent racial discrimination provided the Feds an excuse for more meddling in state affairs.
I agree
Other than you and me, who still like to think that there's some value in States being entities with their own sphere of governing, are there ACTUALLY any Washington conservatives in power (or running for Washington office) that agree with us?
My entire life, conservatives have made a lot of noise about States' rights, but when a State's rights are weighed against a policy desire, the policy desire ALWAYS wins. See the fight over the California pollution rules during the Trump administration, pro-lifers arguing for a national abortion ban, etc.
I feel like States' rights is something that gets a TON of lip service, but the number of people who actually take the idea seriously are just a handful of Internet commenters, and no-one in Washington.
These days, I file the States' rights proclamations in the same circular mental filing bin as candidates vowing to fix the deficit and take the national debt seriously.
Yeah, we've gone from ensuring basic Constitutional rights to regulating one-acre farm ponds at the Federal level. California can pretty much do as they please until they reach the limit of what the other 300 million citizens are willing to pay for. That is right now becoming the case with vehicles and fuel. And they are doing some backtracking to keep Diablo Canyon operating after they discovered even Californians still like having electricity. They are still pretending to be self-righteous about fossil fuels because they import power from other states. Not much different than USA importations from polluting nations.
The problem there is that Emancipation Day could be a number of dates: the date of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the date for each traitor state being restored to the Union and the slaves in each emancipated.
Celebrate it once, just like Independence Day.
It's just not comparable.