Missouri Attorney General Schmitt Sues Biden Administration Over Unconstitutional Attempt to Regulate Firearm Parts

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[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This man will be re-elected.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The government is suing the government to stop the government from breaking the laws the government made that contradict with the laws the government is trying to make.

You can't fix a broken system using that same system.

[–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Your point is taken, but separation of state and federal power is still a good thing. Perhaps not as effective as the founding fathers hoped, as the federal government has ballooned way outside the scope of the 10th Amendment. Still, I see secession as one of the only peaceful outcomes to our current turmoil.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You are looking at this too narrowly. There should be only one level of government, that makes one sets of law. Even then, that government should only exist to create laws for national defence and major infrastructure. Nothing else. While you are spending energy trying to make modern democracy work, that same system is being used against you.

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I disagree with this premise. A single, centralized government that controls from the top down will inevitably become authoritarian and cannot be held accountable by the people. Heck, even with our checks and balances the federal government has become corrupt, unaccountable and servers their own interests. Government should start at the local level, not some rich bureaucrats hundreds of miles away.

You mentioned democracy, and I'm not going to nitpick definitions too much but what we have in the US is a representative democracy. And to that point I'd rather modern democracy not "work" than be controlled by a corrupt central government. That system would certainly be used against us, but more efficiently.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I disagree with this premise. A single, centralized government that controls from the top down will inevitably become authoritarian

Is this not western government today already? Just much worse?

democracy

Hand control of everything over to the ignorant masses, expect government to cater to ignorant masses.