A friend once explained the schlemozzel and the schlemiel to me this way: The schlemiel drops a banana peel, and ten thousand people can pass by unharmed until the schlemozzel comes, and he’ll slip on it.
In this case the schlemiel is the lamestream media and the Dems, the banana peel is libertarianism, with its inherent danger of incongruity between states’ rights and morality, and the schlemozzel is, of course, Rand Paul.
We fought a war over exactly this dilemma, didn’t we? Have we figured out the answer in the following 150 years?
I realize the discussion is about private rights, not states’ rights. But the problem is similar.
It is immoral not to love my neighbor. It is exponentially more immoral for a government to try force me to love my neighbor because love that is compulsory is not love at all.
States rights are as amoral as the states collective boundaries. However, they are greater part of the infrastructure of our free republic. The more we tear away and dissolve them, the closer we get to our eventual collapse.
Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.