>Antisocial elements in many states was dragging the rest of the country down and due to increasing federal power we were able to override them. Not to pick on

>Antisocial elements in many states was dragging the rest of the country down and due to increasing federal power we were able to override them. Not to pick on you, but I want to point this out: this sort of thinking is a vulnerability which can and does get exploited in politics. It is a fallacy that Progress is inevitable and that The Right Thing always plays out, and that the one holding a perspective on this always was born in the fully legitimate and righteous branch of events. Nature is not just; nature simply is.