The End of the Standard-Issue Politician

[churchmouse]

I believe your question(s) may bes addressed to some extent here:

Regarding State

A good discussion on state, sovereignty, secession, and decentralization if you have 27 minutes to watch it....or read the transcript. https://mises.org/wire/were-middle-long-war-state Given my occasional comments regarding dissolution of the central state and secession, I thought it worth...

www.indianagunowners.com

Thanks.
I will watch this later.

 

[miguel]

Tell us when the website is ready to go, chief!

 

[Blackhawk2001]

You can't. It's fantasy land. Our economies are so interwoven, are we going to set up import/export duties with Kentucky? Just the electricity grid/energy infrastructure alone is so interconnected as to be a major hurdle to any sort of "breakup". We'd be a weaker more ridiculous Europe. California would have the economic pull to bully other states in a way that they can't do under federalism. Landlocked states would especially be beholden to other states to allow import/export.

The good news is because it's fantasy land nobody has to really think about how to implement it or deal with the unexpected and expected consequences. The bad news is that fantasy land BS takes away from real solutions, which just perhaps the OP is trying to do. Best of luck to him.

I'm going to call "nonsense" here. Not because I don't think there'd be chaos if we split into separate "nation/states," but because the Constitution gave us a perfectly good mechanism to have a "United States" without having nation states. Congress and the Courts usurping the Interstate Commerce Clause to give them power over ALL the states outside actual "commerce" - buying, selling, and shipping between and among the states - is a relatively recent incursion into the individual states' powers and COULD be rolled back without undue hardship. The federal government was never intended to have as much power over individual states' policy and law as it has usurped in the past 100 years, and much of those powers it has usurped should be stripped from it. Doing so wouldn't particularly hurt anything but those states who've come to rely on DC to pay them more than they're paying DC.