As I said your rants are nothing more than strawmen and some weird sense of guilt by association because I happen to live in a particular state rather than any basis on what I have actually said.
So you are against "Sanctuary cities" and states decriminalizing marijuana? Should we send federal troops into California to enforce federal law?
That has already been threatened several times by your guy Trump.
Once a sufficient majority of states decide to legalize marijuana, we wind up with the federal government at war with the majority of its states.
You guys down South never succeeded in mustering enough numbers to gain victory for your positions on slavery, not 154 years ago and not since. You've made a big show of it, but it remains the
"Lost Cause of the South" for a reason.
I have twice now illuminated the precise and valid reasons why my arguments FOR federal intercession was necessary in your region. The Civil War was fought over "states rights" to OWN SLAVES, as set forth in the secession statements of all the Confederate states.
That has been :beatdeadhorse beaten to death a billion times. Please spare us all.
If the Federal Government elects to go to
all out pot war against the States, which are rapidly approaching a majority, there is no clear victory. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have decriminalized small amounts of marijuana. Eleven states have legalized it outright.
That is already thirty-eight states in total.
I do not see your attempted goal post move in comparing slavery and Jim Crow to pot working very well, unless moving the goal posts was the only incentive.
In which case you still haven't succeeded.
Sanctuary cities and sanctuary states will be looked at again and again. Watch for major changes to our own sanctuary laws here in Cali next year. The concept will remain but I bet money the defining criteria will be tightened up quite a bit.
And in order for that to bear fruit, Congress is going to have to sit down and define a fair, rational and accessible path to legal residency and/or citizenship. What we have in place now is none of those things, and that has been the case long before Trump.
If the idea sells, people will use it. In order for it to sell, it has to be realistic.
Ellis Island was maybe not perfect but it was a much more realistic approach than our current policies.
Illegal immigration is wrong, but it occurs more in the last few decades because we lie to ourselves about the reasons it happens at all. We are not being honest with ourselves in the least, and we haven't been for well over a century.
Safe to say we have never been completely honest with ourselves about it.
The reason so many out in the world consider our immigration policy a sad joke, is because our immigration policy is a sad joke, particularly when compared to so many other western countries. We can HAVE a MERIT based system like they do, but it has to make sense.
We don't even currently make sense when we
define illegal immigration at all right now.
Suddenly EVERYONE or ALMOST EVERYONE is illegal...we're deporting legal residents, even naturalized citizens, we're doing all kinds of bullcrap that contravene our own laws FFS.
