It all boils down to each sides belief system. Democrats feel bigger government is better, Republicans believe smaller government is better.
Until the government can be used to bless your marriage or invade a nation that is no threat to us. Then it is all in favor of the largest government taxes can support.
It's always been that way but lately, democrats think they OWN the country and that there is no other plausible way to govern the country. That is wrong and borders on totalitarianism. The thing the founding fathers didn't want. The democratic party needs to take a good, long, hard look at what they are doing to the country..
Yes and if you let the States decide some matters, you end up with a patchwork of rights. The President put it that way himself in this interview. I’ll play the video (which you won’t watch) and re-post the operative passage:
President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes
“Having to do with abortion — if it ever were overturned, it would go back to the states,” he said. “So it would go back to the states.” Women might still be able to get an abortion, he added, but “they’ll perhaps have to go, they’ll have to go to another state.” When Stahl asked Trump if it would be “okay” for women to travel to other states for the procedure, Trump said, “We’ll see what happens.” He added, “It’s got a long way to go, just so you understand.”
So if you’re female and you are up for a promotion and the place you work at is opening a branch in Austin or Lincoln; you have to decide between your lifestyle and your career. If you get accepted to college at University X and find out that the legislature is about to change the laws; well, you can’t go to the university where your mom or dad possibly went.
It was proven time and again during the 1960’s is that this is how states behave when they are given the opportunity.
As far as the damage the Democrats do, it is considerable. There are volumes of hilarious rules in place that the Democrats should have thought twice about installing. Some regulate the type of styrofoam that a butcher can use. Some allow men to use women’s bathrooms. But the overwhelming majority are well meaning, well thought out measures.
As Democracies go, its a yin and yang type thing though. Nothing is better for the Democrats then (from time to time) let the population languish under a GOP government. And vice versa.
Civil War? No. Both sides have too much to lose and the current structure will disallow any jeopardization of that.
The problem is that with our current President, there is no pretense of honesty or trustworthiness. When this trickles down to the State level where you may get a National Guard commander who is sympathetic to a dishonest douchebag governor who behaves like Trump who swears the election that he lost was rigged… would someone like Trump federalize the Guard to remove the governor from power if he is in the same Party?
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