“the government isn’t going to roll over and give back the rights it has been vigorously stealing for the last hundred years.”
...and on that very subject one would assume that States having been usurped, would be completely on board with retaining what they have and reacquiring what they have lost. In most cases you would be wrong. The States unfortunately have grown accustomed to being wards of the Federal Government at the expense of individual freedom and liberty.
You're making a false assumtion. Not at all what I was talking about. The state governments, in fact government at all levels, are just as guilty as the feds of taking rights and plundering hard earned wealth just to squander it on their supporters. I was refering to the people at the individual level taking action.
Will Rogers once said, "Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for." Unfortunately now we're getting most if not all the government we're paying for.