Yearn for the good old days do you. The good old days when 12 year old children worked 16 hours a day in the spinning mills in Massachusetts, the coal mines of Pennsylvania, or the cotton fields of Alabama. The good old days when your owner could sell your children or your wife, or your husband to the neighbor down the road, just like he could sell a dog or his mule. The good old days when the master could summon you to his bedroom, secure in the knowledge that your child would be his “property”. The days when women could not resist or vote. The good old days when we uprooted thousands of people, marched them a 1000 miles to nowhere Oklahoma, so we could have their land. The days when you were free to die of starvation because you had no money. The days when it was against the law to teach a child to read or write. the good old days when, because of your situation, you only counted as 3/5th of a person.
Yep, Lincoln’s war, ruined it for those that yearned for the good old day of Federalism.
Are you just venting or something?
Federalism is the consented to separation of powers between the state and the Federal government. The Federal government is supposed to defend the nation from foreign enemies, (among a very few other things) not hire dog catchers or clear your sewers.
The Federal government should be constrained to it's designed purpose, and kept completely out of state or municipal functions for which it wasn't designed.