Conceptually, you’re right,
but Constitutionally, the states would have the right to govern in those areas unless their own Constitutions or the US Constitution forbade it.
The idea is that you can hold your legislators more accountable than Congress, and you can move as a last resort.
The left doesn’t want you to be able to avoid their control,
so they make all laws centrally to prevent you from using the moving box of liberty.
“Conceptually, you’re right,
but Constitutionally, the states would have the right to govern in those areas unless their own Constitutions or the US Constitution forbade it.”
Actually most state constitutions are very similar to the US Constitution, not that any politician pays any attention to any of them.
If everything is moved back to the state level you’ll just have all the politicians take root there. Many state governments are already as, or more, oppressive than Federal. Massachusetts, for example, is tantamount to a totalitarian socialist state.
I understand what you are saying, but I think people need to start thinking in terms of the original principles this country is founded on. We got where we are today by compromising, over and over again, those principles.
Hank