Tuesday, November 12, 2013

No To Nullification

I was listening to Mark Levin as I drove home from work tonight. He is judicially a strict originalist, and a fervent adherent of constitutionalism and the rule of law. He was cautioning radical Libertarians/NeoConfederates that are for secession from the Union and for nullification that these movements are illegal and unconstitutional because maintaining and protecting the edifice of federalism is expressly sanctioned in the Constitution by Founding Fathers like James Madison, the father of the Constitution. Like Madison, Levin advised that Libertarians seek redress for their systemic frustrations, by resorting to fixing problems through the Amendment process. Good idea. As an individuator anarchist, I favor all the positions advocated by the Neo-Confederates, but we Conservatives must agree to disagree and those of us with extra-Constitutional views must not blow up the great American experiment out of impatience and reckless idealism. We need to work within the system to improve it, and slowly over the next few decades make it so power can devolve even more to the local level as much as can be achieved, or as much as is workable. We do not want to be like 3,000 denominations of Protestantism, sapping ourselves of united strength by splitting hairs over doctrinal differences. Let us agree to disagree on some things, agree where we may, and then work together to push back the Left and Progressives that favor fairness, justice and equality (as defined and managed by the Federal Beast to the detriment of all)--all at the expense of constitutionally guaranteed individual rights to live free and not be micromanaged.

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