“Every year at this time I’m reminded that I’m living under a slightly more civilized version of the old USSR. It makes me sick, but I don’t have the intestinal fortitude of our founding fathers.”
And 700,000 men died in the Civil War to ensure that an all powerful Central Government can perpetually F it’s citizens at the point of a gun.
Yep. That’s how I see it. Before the Civil War the us was more like the EU. Not any more. The states are more like counties than sovereign states.
All Hail Lincoln and his successors to the Master Control Fedzilla.