Have you ever heard of "Laboratories of Democracy?"
Your analogy to King George is irrelevant. IL is not a nation. The Founders knew that some states would be more liberal than others, so they created a mechanism via the 10th Amendment to give states powers not delegated to the Feds.
So if people are fed up with leftist states, they can leave. That's the beauty of federalism and it's not "cutting and running."
I sort of run with “Manny’s” take in ‘The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress’, when it comes to standing up to a foul government: If there’s a 1 in 10 chance to win, I’ll take it. But, I want at least a 1 in 10 chance...
“Your analogy to King George is irrelevant. IL is not a nation. The Founders knew that some states would be more liberal than others, so they created a mechanism via the 10th Amendment to give states powers not delegated to the Feds.
So if people are fed up with leftist states, they can leave. That’s the beauty of federalism and it’s not “cutting and running.””
Not so! The end result of people leaving the currently liberal states is to foster the movement of Liberals to states that currently are at least semi-conservative, because in reality, not a one of them is really conservative and Liberals tend to “move on” once they’ve terminally crapped up their current places of abode. The net result of people running rather than standing and fighting is that in the end, most, if not all states will become Liberal.
I just love the turkeys here from Texas who puff out their chests about how “conservative” Texas is (which in and of itself is complete BS). They are almost to the tipping point where California was twenty years ago and they are too stupid to see that Texas is on the cusp of becoming Mexias, with a “generous helping” of Black Freeloaders in their major cities. And when they look up one day and have a Illegal Alien Mexican for their governor, and a Mexican majority legislature, they will be saying WTF happened!
We should not be “ceding territory to Liberals anywhere.