You may not like the fact that some States--Massachusetts would be an obvious example, as would be New York--adopt Leftwing Collectivist policies. You would like to apply the "14th Amendment," as some Courts applied it before FDR, to put a limit on Socialism in the States. (Of course, since World War II, it has been used in precisely the opposite direction; so it serves little or no benefit from your own perspective. You are simply expressing wishful thinking as to an alternative interpretation.)
But the real problem, you seem to ignore, is that our Federal system was not set up to force your or my values on the people of our sister States, anymore than it was set up to force the distorted views of Earl Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt, the Kennedys, Bill and Hillary Clinton, etc., upon the States. The real problem is that it destroys the symmetry and balance of our system, and moves it towards a monolithic concept that was never intended.
Surely, you would not embrace the UN as an answer to American "Liberals" or Socialists, even if somehow the Third World all moved sharply to the Right. The issues would still be ours to deal with, among ourselves: Not be dealt with by outside forces.
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You still haven't ~really~ answered the question on the 14th. -- Can a state or community ignore our constitutions bill of rights when making law? - You seem to imply that view in this line:
"The real problem is that it [The 14th?] destroys the symmetry and balance of our system, and moves it towards a monolithic concept that was never intended."
I beg to differ. The Constitution & BOR's was always 'intended' to be the supreme "Law of the Land".