Americans who were once for “states rights” have morphed into brute nationalists. Their man is in the White House and they want him to prove to the world that the US is nothing more than a nation by building a wall on the Mexican border and expelling 3 million illegal immigrants. Liberals must now become passionate about demanding “states rights” because a nationalistic Federal Government would be a drastic perversion of our union’s history. American liberals can be characterized as “Lincoln centrists”. The only government they focus on is the one in Washington and they have something like a holy fear of ever mentioning in their talk and writings that the Constitution grants the Washington government limited sovereignty and does not set it up as a state. There are 51 governments in the US and 50 of them actually are governments of states but for liberals the one that is not is alone august and sacred. Before for a liberal it was a moral and political gaffe to refer to America as a union of states even though on every bill of our money our society is called The United States of America, not just America. Liberals will be forced now to recognize at last that they live in a union of states if the strongest legal defense they possess against an extreme right-wing government in Washington is “states rights”.
Daniel McNeill
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