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From my perspective, our local politics are hopeless because my state is controlled by religious fundamentalists. The feds exist to protect me from those aroun
by rjurney 18y ago
From my perspective, our local politics are hopeless because my state is controlled by religious fundamentalists. The feds exist to protect me from those around me by limiting their ability to change my state to Jesus Land by enforcing the constitution.
- gaius 18y agoThe same people who are religious fundamentalists are often literal constitutionalists too, tho'. To all intents and purposes it's the Book of Jefferson to them. That sort of dynamic tension is generally a good and creative thing (the dialectic, Marxists would call it), and of course you as an individual are free to practice regulatory arbitrage.