40 years of observation and the current state of affairs applied logically to the situation.
These state legislatures have happily sold their sovereign soles to the fed for matching funds, and both parties have been very compliant.
I wish it were different, maybe someday, but not now.
I’ve been observing for longer than you and perhaps closer as well.]
I have to agree with you in part; ever since the 16th and 17th and Amendments, States have been relegated largely to the status of administrative regions and have to a great degree lost their way as they lost their independence and their independent funding.
But there is a groundswell of sentiment in the many states (but not all) that this situation can and should be changed. This needs to be nurtured and encouraged and the the greatest degree possible, expedited.
That’s what we’re about.