JakeStarkey
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When will many conservative realize this isn't 19th century anymore and get over their love affair over states rights? Having 50 different states with all kinds of different rules and regulations may have made sense back then, but these days of vast and fast travel, and much more complicated industries, it would be a clusterfuck having states rule everything by themselves. Hardly a united country. And certain things its just not feasible to have each state make their own rules and regulations.
Plus its happened already and the federal gov't has been strong for so long now. Stop kicking and screaming and try to make it work for once. Get over the pipe dream and ideology, its the way it is now, regardless of what you think the framers wanted.
So youre willing to trust one claque of demagogues with every aspect of government, instead of retaining local control and flexibility to deal with local problems, solutions, and initiatives? This idea shows an absolutely incredible lack of understanding of how systems work and/or fail. I'd at least like to credit this idea as trolling, but since ideas like this one are standard product for you, you are probably serious. I don't think you have a clue how federalism and local government work together because you haven't availed yourself to looking into it.
Straighten me out on this: You seem to believe the US Dept of Education hires teachers and builds brick-and-mortar school buildings, or that the US DOT builds highways because there is an interstate highway system, while in fact virtually all construction work and maintenance of our interstate highway system is contracted out and completed under state supervision, with limited federal funding to leverage the work between states. The Feds standardize and coordinate the system for all 50 states; the states do everything else within their borders physically and administratively.
(quote: "....certain things its just not feasible to have each state make their own rules and regulations." )
THIS IS how a federal system works, and practically and administratively it works well, because every state, even every county is different in uncountable ways. You seem to not grasp the ingenious design of the system, and why it works well when it works at all.
Your hobby, horse, is interesting and predictable. But we are not going back to the 1950s and earlier, period.