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Raging Stephen Miller Suggests Slapping Handcuffs on Blue State Governor
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I never thought I would find myself joining the war on states' rights on the side of states' rights.
That's because the entire issue is that the people whose ideologies you are fighting against don't actually have consistent ideologies. Their ideology boils down to "what is beneficial to me to gain power that that specific time." Once that time has passed and the opposite becomes more beneficial to them, they will switch sides, because that's all that really matters to them.
When states' rights becomes convenient to them again, they will switch back to supporting them just as effortlessly as they switched to states' rights not being important. There is no end, there is no bottom, they have no shame. They only have the pursuit and expression of power. Which honestly explains why so many of them are rapists and kiddie diddlers since both of those are about gaining and executing power over the powerless.
It's like that saying the inmates are running the asylum. The Confederates are running the Federal government.
Which is why I maintain that the civil war never ended, it just went cold.
Andrew Johnson was the first victory of the south in the long cold war that followed.
I prefer, "the clowns are now running the circus.".
In high end circuses, the clowns are the most experienced acrobats and performers. There's a decent chance the clowns are the coaches for the new performers doing the fancy stuff. It takes a ton of practice and experience to do acrobatics and gymnastics "badly" without getting horribly injured.
Not only that but clowns running the circus is a pretty apt example of Socialism. The clowns literally own the means of production. The better they are at clowning and clown-like activities, the better the circus is and the more money the circus makes, thus the more money they make. They'd have incentive to make the best circus they could make.
I would feel pretty dang proud to be a clown, plus I get to wear the awesome wig
It would be funny if people went to protests dressed as union soldiers with signs like "slavery lost".
I feel like it would infuriate the miller and carlson types.
The Governors failing to protect the people who the governor sued the federal government for sending there. What the hell judge would ever be able to uphold any of it. Is it possible, maybe but it's like me going to a bar and being told to leave because I was banned, sneaking in the backdoor, the bar tender telling me to leave and then throwing a punch at the bouncer and expecting a judge to say the establishment failed to keep me safe when the bouncer threw me on the curb.
Why not? The US was designed to have a weak federal system.
Because states rights has long been a bigoted dogwhistle. Early on it was states rights to have slavery, but rejecting states rights to declare every person on their soil free; then it became about Jim Crow, then abortion and gay issues and to a lesser extent cannabis, but only when the federal government was considering banning the bigoted option. The people chanting states rights about abortion aren't anymore and are cracking down on the rights of pregnant people to leave their states to get an abortion.
States rights were also a profound force against slavery.