Re: CHAT: Gale Norton (was Californian secessionists)

Thomas R. Wier scripsit:

> [I]t's partly that many
> people on the left instinctively and reflexively want to federalize
> everything, to concentrate more power into the hands of a now
> massively powerful federal government, and are naive enough to
> think that that will on the whole lead to fewer abuses of power
> than if that power were decentralized to the States.
Back in the Middle Ages, people often used to do everything
they could to get their cases transferred from local courts to
the king's justice.  If the local lord was good, he could be
very effective.  If he was was bad, one or both parties was often $@(#ed.

Then there's the Civil Rights movement.  Without the feds, there wouldn't
be any, period.

> (There's a middle road to be found somewhere in there.)
So we can hope.

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