States rights after all?

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A Blue State Secession Model I Can Get Behind

Summary

The National Review columnist points out that Kevin Baker's essay in The New Republic supporting blue states like California, Oregon and Washington seceding from the union makes liberals sound like constitutional conservatives.

Quote

"After all, did the Founders envision a federal administrative mega-bureaucracy that stripped virtually every major social policy from the states, often leaving them marginal players (compared with the feds) in their own citizens’ welfare?" 

Understanding

Federalism is the political system where central and regional governments share power equally. Conservatives argue that the United States skews the balance to favor Washington D.C.

The irony of liberals now wanting less federal interference is worth noting. The National Review columnist suggests this ideological agreement could lead to bipartisan collaboration if we could just stop being angry.

I have a hard time swallowing that proposal because I can't get over how the "states rights" argument was used against the civil rights movement. So here I am stuck in the past, fighting and old battle and not forgiving.

It's just that I worry it's not an old battle. The struggle continues and my fears keep me from the common table where I could talk to conservatives about his issue. Huh. That sounds familiar too.