Posted on 03/10/2015 5:54:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
An annual poll sponsored by National Journal and Allstate Insurance finds Americans losing faith in Washington to solve problems, while believing that state and local governments are better equipped to address important issues.
This attitude cuts across gender, education, socioeconomics, and even different regions of the country. Even a plurality of Democrats favor state and local solutions to problems.
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Some smart Republican presidential candidate is going to tap into this motherlode and ride it to the White House. If they don't, they will have missed a golden opportunity. This is conservative philosophy writ large across barriers of age, gender, class, and regional differences. It is the essence of Russell Kirk's "voluntary community" where problems are addressed as close to home as possible.
One can also see inate support for the 10th amendment. The issue is clouded by liberals who scream "states' rights" at every mention of the 10th, thus obfuscating the need for local control by attaching visions of Jim Crow and racism to the idea. But at least in the abstract, Americans seem willing to give more responsibility to the states.
Successful politics is about giving voice to the hopes and desires of the people. The GOP candidate who can exploit these feelings and make them their own will have a leg up on the opposition in 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Right on cue!
Walker Gives Jim Crow The Freedom To Work In Wisconsin "As I had warned, Scott Walker did a lot of grandstanding in the signing of the utterly misnamed Right to Work bill today. On the surface, it looks like a well polished and popular event.
The truth of the matter is a little different.
Look at this picture and see what you notice (and I don't mean that things were so tightly orchestrated that Walker's handler's put tape on the floor so people knew where they were supposed to stand}:
What you should notice is what is missing from the picture - workers. If Right to Work is all about freedom, shouldn't there be workers to celebrate their new found freedom?.....
....And despite Walker's attempts to tightly control the messaging, good old Joe Biden called it out for its other aspect - fascism:....."
On 'right-to-work," Jim Crow & today's WI all-white bill signing "......about the all-white big-wigs who posed together at a private company to watch Scott Walker sign into law the 'right-to-work' bill about which he'd been feigning disinterest.
I'll bet this collection of ideologues doesn't know anything about the ugly history of the bill they gathered to celebrate with, and on behalf of Walker.
- - so you might want to read more from the Institute for Southern Studies here about the racist origins of 'right-to-work' legislation in the anti-union south, as well as in Kansas, where the founder of the Koch interest empire played a key role.
How does this fit into Wisconsin, or, I suppose, the Progressive and idealistic Wisconsin we once knew?...."
Good. Right in Cruz's wheelhouse.
Exactly.
Slow clap. It's about time they woke up.
Obama is some kind of smelling salts.
oh, smelling salts? Well played CW.....
Uh-oh. They're catching on.
Hey!, DemocRATS! Look over there! Squirrel!
Both parties in DC want to grow government. They are colluding on the invasion by fraudulently documented foreigners and refusing to uphold the rule of law.
It is imperative that we nominate a candidate that stands with the citizens, the rule of law and American sovereignty.
If they shove Jebster down our throats, he will lose by a landslide.
We need to make that clear now. Do not commit to hold your nose for their designated loser as I have seen people here do already.
Well...DUHHHH
Probably the only GOOD thing that Obama accomplished, must be killing Hillary and the other Dems that this could be his legacy,.
RE: Poll: People giving up on Washington
Whew, for a moment I thought Washington State was suffering some mass exodus....
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This attitude cuts across gender, education, socioeconomics, and even different regions of the country. Even a plurality of Democrats favor state and local solutions to problems.”
This is in no small part due to the failures in Washington Which stand in stark contrast with with many successes at the State level.
The more State legislators make the news for Good or bad making a difference the more Americans are going to recognize the greatest American Domestic power they once forsaken. Arizona helped open the flood gates, still other American State legislators are following sute with their own bold anti-Washington Agendas to change the laws for the better in a way that is accounting able to the people not only as a group(by vote) but as individual who may defend their rights with their feet.
That said I don’t see how a republican president can take advantage of this other than to highlight it and promus to help keep Washington out of their hair and let people make policy that is closer to their hearts both literally geographically and politically.
When States make the news with Great ideas changing things for the better, in the eyes of its own people.
“An annual poll sponsored by National Journal and Allstate Insurance finds Americans losing faith in Washington to solve problems, while believing that state and local governments are better equipped to address important issues.”
Yea sure sure, Government, that will solve everything.
Set up article, push poll right towards more government.
Got alot of suckers baited into this already.
Congratulations Allstate.
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