(01-16-2024, 07:02 PM)Chiefsmom Wrote: Well, I thought States rights were important?
The Govenor is protecting his state.
I don't see the problem Joe.
States Rights are only important to a free people. Leftists believe in an overly strong central government to issue orders to them, and extremely weak peripheral governments who are only there to enforce the edicts of the Central Government. They believe that power flows from the elites down, rather from the People up.
Leftists believe that the US should be run on a plantation economy, with Massa living in the big white house on the hill, telling the rest of us what to do and how to do it, while we toil away to make Massa rich, and gin nothing for ourselves.
They believe it's their world, and we are just here for them. Massa's only job is to dole out just enough money for us to stay alive and produce for him - things like "basic incomes" and "the welfare state". In exchange for this pittance, we are to keep producing for the State, enriching Massa and his Overseers - whether that enrichment is financial or just power... which often leads to financial gain as well, especially if you have a savvy son who can extract tribute from foreign lands based upon your alleged "power".
This is the way of all Communists, Socialists, and anyone else you may find on the political Left.
Oh, the Left will TELL you that they are there to free people, return power to the masses and usher in a new Utopia of freedom and prosperity for all, but that's all just advertisement to gain supporters. It's just propaganda, smoke and mirrors. It has never actually worked tht way in the real world, NEVER, not in any implementation of Leftism that has ever gripped a people, anywhere on Earth.
Ever.
"Freedom" is having NO ONE to tell you what to do. It is not in having a Central Planning Committee a thousand miles away to plan your every move, your every waking moment, and punish you if you fail to meet the Centralized State's expectations.
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