Absolutely not! And it was also never intended to be a tool for evil! They cannot FORCE atheism or abortion or homosexual marriage on us any more than they can legally take away our guns or over tax us or force us to buy an insurance policy against our will.
America was founded on the principle that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to Life and Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness!! Look it up!
Limited government! Individual Liberty!
The government needs to butt OUT!!
As it is the liberals run rough-shod over us and the evil they cannot accomplish legislatively, the scum in black robes takes care of for them. Time to bring back tar and feathers!!
DON'T TREAD ON ME!!!
Amen Jim. I hope and pray we can restore power to the states and neuter the federal abomination. Every year the government gets bigger and takes more, it’s time to reverse the trend. I have high hopes now that we’ve retaken the house.
Indeed!
A lot of our problems these days stem from the disproportionate distribution of government. We should be paying more in State Taxes than Federal Taxes. In fact they should be flip-flopped for starters. We have more say on who our state legislators are than we do for who our senators and federal representatives. When we have so little say over the people who legislate such intimate details of our lives on a federal level the balance should be moved more to a state level.
This makes America stronger as policies that are abysmal do not impart they tyranny against the entire nation. The sick an tired liberal dogma of “diversity is strength” was completely ignored when those same liberal attempt to push us all under the umbrella of federal dictation. Diversity IS strength when applied to giving more of the control into the individual states. The problem is the progressives have brainwashed most Americans that it is the federal government’s place to act as emotional janitor when it comes to dealing with the “squishy issues” such as social welfare, health care, education, etc...
We are most certainly NOT a Democracy, we are a Republic and keeping the politics more local gives the people who pick their representatives far more power.
“Power to the People” in the context of the 60’s radicals means to become a Democracy where mob rule trumps over any minority viewpoint even in areas of a country where people have more traditional values than their urban dwelling counterparts.
“Power to the People” as our founders intentioned means we give the states and the people within those states the power to make good decisions and sometimes mistakes. This distributed power makes the country stronger as a result. One bad decision in one state’s capital doesn’t bring down the people of the entire nation unwillingly. We need to stand together as states to defend ourselves against threats against our collections of states, not treats to the country as a big amorphous homogeneous unit.
The Federal government has been distracted in the last 50 years over the issues that it shouldn’t be dealing with in the first place on a conceptual level as prescribed by the constitution. These distractions dilute the real reason for having a Federal Government over the states in the first place. These reasons are to protect our borders, deal with international trade, defend the states against foreign enemies, promote free trade BETWEEN the states (Interstate Commerce) and to uphold the limits on federal government placed there BY constitution.
Now how well have we been doing in the last 50 years on protecting our borders? Not very well, How abut International trade? China is kicking us tot he curb on this one and the federal government has failed us there as well. Defending against foreign enemies? We created a whole new bureaucracy called Homeland Security after 9/11 instead of firing the people who failed us in the FBI and CIA, and promoting the ones who where screaming warnings that were ignored by their superiors. And we are finding out slowly these days that this new Bureaucracy we created is pointed more at our own patriotic citizens in the name of being politically correct. Interstate Commerce seems like something the federal government has done right, but it has been twisted to take away our rights so many times with the “Commerce Clause” that it just isn’t funny anymore. When it comes to the Constitution and protecting the limits of government placed on it, only the most basic of rights described by the bill of rights have been enforced by the Supreme Court and even now they are being eroded by loopholes and exceptions to the rules.
The Federal Government has bitten off way more than it can chew, the power needs to return to the states, because when the power returns to the states it returns to the people who live in those states. We can all drive in our own cars to our own state capitals and raise hell in an afternoon or less than a day in most cases, but can we all easily drive to Washington D.C. ? When the people who govern us are isolated from the people who put them there they tend to take for granted and abuse the sacred power we entrust them with.
That is my 2 cents, of course with inflation it is probably a few dollars worth of information to ponder.