I agree with most of your comments. But I have to wonder why they are ALL complicit. It makes me wonder if there is a bigger issue at play here.
My theory is that our State of the Union is much worse than these guys are letting on. My theory is they are paralyzed not by philiosophical ideals, but by understanding that our military and economy would not survive long if we did much of anything.
They know it and they are horrified by it.
One big reason that corrupt lawmakers get themselves elected to DC is to fill their pockets with their ”fair share” of the tunsami of illegal federal taxes going through DC; it beats robbing banks for a living.
That being said, given the remote possibilty that you have not seen the following excerpts, you might find them interesting. First, a previous generation of state-sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from taxing and spending in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Note that since there is nothing in Section 8 that expressly authorizes Congress to tax and spend for things like Social Security or Obamacare, such federal programs are based on 10th Amendment protected-state powers and associated state revenues which the corrupt feds have stolen from the states.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” - Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
At this point in the presidential race, I think that Trump has distinguished himself as the ball of fire that can help patriots put corrupt Congress back into its Section 8-limited power ”cage.”