paulg_68 posted:
Democrats had the House, Senate, and Whitehouse. If there was ever a right time that was it.
They didn't pass it.
Thank goodness Democrats haven't been able to completely stamp out states rights or we wouldn't be making any progress at all.
Are you embarrassed Groucho that you have argued that states rights were a power only to be used for ebil?
I have stated many times that the only importance the issue of states rights has to me is it is yet another tool to mock right wing hypocrites with. It is right wingers who make states rights one of the foundations of their political philosophy, so, naturally enough, I enjoy pointing out all the times they impose federal statues to violate the concept of states rights. Like, say, the Defense of Marriage Act.
All things being equal, the concept of 50 state all trying different things and the country as a whole progressing from their different experiences, is an attractive one. But, it doesn't work that way in the real world. States rights are generally used by right wingers to deny individual rights. In those cases, I think the Feds need to step in and protect individual rights. With gay marriage, you are correct in that the concept of states rights is actually being used, by Democrats, to advance individual rights.
I would order things this way:
Individual rights
Federal rights
States rights
Right wingers generally order them in the way that favors the few over the many. Sometimes that is states rights first, sometimes it is federal rights first. Whichever serves best to curtail individual rights.
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