Culture Struggle

I find it interesting that while the Fed has been leaping, not stepping, over the line the states are going in the opposite direction. State after state has backed away from infringing on citizens rights. Most states now have right to carry laws, while 2 have no laws against any carry method, with a third poised to join them.

With the Fed taking a giant leap (health care after taking control of private industry) towards Marxism, something like 30 states are getting ready to challenge the new law in court. Other states have previously taken a shot across the bow by enacting laws and resolutions challenging the Fed's authority to regulate firearms within state borders.

So the Fed is heading towards Marxism an the states are fighting back by asserting states rights (federalism). And the people through the TEA Party movement are yelling also.

We're now in the a cultural struggle to change the very nature of this country. One side is pushing towards an overpowering central government, and the other fighting back for our traditional bottom up authority.

I vaguely remember a quote about the liberty tree requiring watering with blood.

I wonder if this parallels the times before the civil war.

Us old farts might remember this from school. I'm sure it's not in todays curriculum.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. . . .