[central_va]

Half the country wants to be left alone and doesn’t want to control anyone. The other half wants to control everyone.

[Sequoyah101]

Not much middle ground there is there?

[Bodega]

No, I think half the country doesn’t want to control anything except their next hit, next bottle or next screw.

Now more than 1/2 of us in the Deplorable States and in many bluish states want to maintain core values of patriotism, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, less enslavement by the government, vastly better school systems actually teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, real history (based on facts as they can be found) and civics...I could rant on.

We in the More than 1/2 of us part are not much interested in lots of government and to be in control of anybody except ourselves and cooperatively with our family and other relations and to some extent local and regional government.

It seems to me it is the inner city denezins who don’t belong to the other 1/2+ group. Maybe they should be happy to be inner city SF, Flint, Detroit, NYC, LA, etc.

[semantic]

But here's the ultimate irony: the Union established the centralized, out-of-balance federal government. For 150 years, the Union was in control of the original big government movement.

Yet it has taken the election of a citizen of New York - the Union ring leader - as president to turn history on its head. Now, it is those who embrace the philosophy of individual & states rights who are in charge.

And who are the new targets of the self-same federal behemoth that was created so long ago? Why, the very same forces that created the Union & centralization: New York, California & Illinois.

Who says doG doesn't have a sense of humor?