[rabscuttle385]

It's just that some of them with libertarian-leanings believe that social issues should be decided at the lowest levels of government possible because not everyone is going to agree with social issues being decided across the United States in some uniform manner.

LowCountryJoe raised a very valid point that you failed to recognize, ansel12. Regardless of the social outcome being pursued, it must not come at the cost of increased centralization and greater concentration of power at the federal level.

and I prefer the pre leftist 1960s conservative public space.

The "pre-leftist" public space you refer to had many good characteristics that are sorely lacking in today's world, but I would not favor a return to those days, which included such things as government-sanctioned discrimination on the basis of race, bans on interracial marriage, and even...gasp, eugenics and forced sterilizations.

[ElPatriota]

[Cheap_Hessian]

"but I would not favor a return to those days, which included such things as government-sanctioned discrimination on the basis of race"

Like affirmative action and social justice?

even...gasp, eugenics and forced sterilizations."

Like killing the unproductive with this Nationalized Health Care bill? A democracy or republic by itself is not moral or knowledgeable.

[ansel12]

The "pre-leftist" public space you refer to had many good characteristics that are sorely lacking in today's world, but I would not favor a return to those days, which included such things as government-sanctioned discrimination on the basis of race, bans on interracial marriage, and even...gasp, eugenics and forced sterilizations.

The Federal Government ended all that by imposing their laws on local and state governments.

You may be too young to remember the federal government sending in the United States Army Paratroopers to fix those problems you just described