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Originally Posted by Rochard
Seriously, what kind of bullshit is that? Do I want my government to reflect the things I believe in? Why, yes, yes I do. But my neighbor wants the government to reflect the things he believes in, and those aren't the same things I believe in.
Texas can leave the US today and they still won't have the government they want - Because everyone believes in different things, wants different things, and has different needs from their governments.
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Of course. No government will accurately reflect a persons views on EVERY single issue. But there are two points to that.
One is that if the states would have the powers guaranteed by the 10th amendment, then you could "vote with your feet" much more effectively in moving to the state that most reflects your own world view without having an over-reaching federal government that removed the choices. I feel quite safe in saying that people in a given geographic area have much more similar priorities than across a whole continent. What is important to people in Montana is not the same as what is important to people in New York..... Or DC for that matter.
Also, your personal ability to create change in your own government is far higher on the state level than on the federal level, since a smaller number of people reflect a far higher percentage of the constituency for state legislators than they do for the feds. Like I said earlier, 100,000 people at the state level, protesting about an issue, cannot be ignored by the state government, but 1,000,000 or more at the federal level are routinely ignored by federal legislators.
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