It seems We The People have been domesticated by the Left. As conservatives we believe in small government, but the comments of distress on Twitter and elsewhere make calls to the federal government to control and manage the states on our behalf as if the Left's model of Big Government is needed to function.
We have lost the Spirit of '76.
The Left is using power originally given to us via State's Rights to abuse us. The idea behind State's Rights was that We The People would be obeyed by our state government and so our wishes would be done. But the Left is using the States as the Big Government "ruler" over us, as if we aren't competent enough to rule ourselves.
The Right seems to be waiting for the federal government to assume the ultimate power the Left always wanted to give it "to protect us". What happens if the federal government retains that power after President Trump leaves office?
YES!
Just as with "rightly dividing the Word of God," we must remember to rightly divide the laws of Liberty upon which we're founded! All this haste for President Trump to "do something" is misplaced. I am more than aware that some states are controlled by socialist, marxists, dictating rats. But the laws pertaining to anarchy in those states are under state jurisdiction and have to be addressed there.
I do see reports of Federal officials addressing federal crimes in these areas but the public outcry needs to be focused toward those state authorities. We have to rise up and address these crimes under Constitutional authority and not allow the rats the federal control they have been fighting to take!
John Adams:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The whole letter:
From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102
Here’s another passage that is even more packed.
Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke