agip wrote:
nonequals wrote:
Or, "It's a big country" could explain it. Yeah, I think that's it.
the fact that the US is arguably a continental empire (rather than a country) is a frequent burr under our saddle. Or bicycle seat. Always has been.
Finding the right balance between federal uniformity and state semi-autonomy is hard and always under rethink.
The problem of course is race..so many states use their semi-autonomy to discriminate by race, that the feds have to jump in.
If the whites would just behave better things would go more smoothly, that's for sure.
But as is often true in US history, we do need a rethink on finding the line between federal authority and states' rights.
to finish the thought: But as is often true in US history, we do need a rethink on finding the line between federal authority and states' rights, otherwise we could spin apart, with a bicoastal nation and Jesuslandia in between. We have to make it non-humiliating for the trumpists to stay in the nation even if they are outnumbered and outvoted. Maybe the senate and EC are that thing we must give them.