Reply #14: Uh...I don't think so [View All]

[Cats Against Frist]

They, right now, have the option of getting or not getting an abortion, at their own discretion. This argument is flawed, because the abortion argument and the gay marriage argument are not about "local" control. They're about "Adam and Steve and the Crusade to Save Souls." They cannot give a rational answer to why they're against abortion and against gay marriage, in the framework of rights -- since it REALLY doesn't affect them -- so they're about to change the framewordk, my friends.

America is God's now. God smiles down on us because we're rich. God doesn't want dead fetuses in AMERICA. God doesn't want "reach arounds" in AMERICA.

It's part of a larger worldview -- and they have all the power.

I, and people like me, have been getting the "bah humbugs!" from people when we bring up federalism -- but the thing is, it might be too late for that plan, anyway.

If they have all the power, and they're on a crusade, why would they give us "local control?"

You're making the mistake of believing that these people are actually FOR small government and STATES' RIGHTS and FEDERALISM. These are big-government authoritarian right wingers, who aspire to be BIG GOVERNMENT, RIGHT-WING TOTALITARIANS, and the LAST thing they want is to dismantle the federal government right now.

That's why I like the radical proposal to have the left introduce all the bills that they've pretended that they've been clamouring over for years: the abolition of the income tax, states' rights, de-centralization, the abolition of regulatory agencies, etc.

To keep from losing their power, they'd have to become obstructionists to their own agenda. Blow the doors off the whole thing.

Or, we can keep trying to "reason" with them. Yeah.

Anyway, it doesn't work. It's not "local control" they're after -- it's dominion.