Exactly. If states can have their local versions of the Second Amendment, why not gradations of "rights" like abortion that aren't really rights?
Federalism is a joke played on conservatives by “conservative” politicians and “conservative” judges.
It’s a club. I’ve been reading what the SCOTUS did during the government caused Great Depression. Once FDR got the political heat going they just fell in line with whatever the flavor of the day was in DC.
Why stand up for the Constitution when it pays so well to just go along? How many billions does the Constitution pay out? How many billions does ignoring the Constitution pay out?
That’s where we’re at. The funny thing is that one of the founding “progressives”, Charles Beard, said he hated the Constitution and called it illegitimate because the Founders wrote it to their own economic benefit and not for the benefit of the common man.
Now, the common man is a slave to a government that ignores the Constitution and is steeped in the crony capitalism practiced by the modern plutocracy. I look forward to kicking Beard in whatever rear his spirit currently possesses. I hope I have to wait a long time until that day, though.