Maybe America really can't be put back together again. Tal Bachman over at Mark Steyn's site considers possible changes in the future direction of our country.
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Maybe America really can't be put back together again. Tal Bachman over at Mark Steyn's site considers possible changes in the future direction of our country.
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I'm in favor of the divorce option. Cut the left coast, the People's Republics on the Atlantic, and cities like Chicago loose and let them sink until they beg to come back. The loonies left in the interior of the country would conform or move, so they wouldn't be a problem. Even better, purge the universities in favor of community colleges and trade schools and see what happens. We wouldn't have to worry about purging the media because they're already slowly strangling themselves anyway.
In this scenario [antebellum federalism], the states would recover a huge amount of their sovereignty; Congress's legislative jurisdiction would correspondingly shrink; the 14th Amendment (and maybe the 17th) would be rescinded;
The 17th (and the 16th!) absolutely should be repealed. The 14th? Oh, a horde of internet klansmen would love that. They already claim blacks (and especially Jews) can't legally be US citizens, nor anyone whose parents are foreign-born. Hell, these same "scholars" argue that no Amendment enacted after 1860 is legitimate. As far as the supremacy of federal law is concerned, we already shed a river of blood over that question, and I see no reason to do it again.
I also don't think we should return to the day when President Jackson could say, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it" and no one bats an eye.
It may be an unpopular opinion in some places, but just because a Constitutional Amendment has been wildly misinterpreted and misapplied by activist leftist judges and politicians does not mean it should be tossed.
The problem I see is that institutions created by men are inherently imperfect, and errors made by men were expected. Throwing it out and starting over because we've allowed fools to rule us is no solution, because we'd be right back here in a generation. We need to start reform at that bottom (the education system, both public and private, would be a good start, as RebeccaH suggests), rather than knocking down the towers.
The hard part is going to be convincing a couple/three hundred million people their problems are their fault and their problem.
True that. I'll admit I haven't done much of anything on my part. I don't have children, but I pay property taxes, so I have every right to attend a local school board meeting (it's my money they're spending). Do I? Nope.
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