[4CJ]

'But today Americans have learned to view the victory of the Union over the states, which meant an enormous increase in the centralization of power, as a triumph of "democracy."'

Not all of us. Some Americans still believe that the powers of the federal monolith are limited, it's convincing the sheeple that's holding us up. Divest the federal government of all it's unconstitutional entitlement programs, and remove the federal chokehold from our state institutions and things would be as the founders intended - state sovereignity with national protections.

[SteamshipTime]

To accomplish this goal, you would first have to convince recipients of government transfer payments to vote to divest themselves of their source of income. I'm not holding my breath.