So are they just trying to court opinion their way into a new Confederacy or something?
You might want to look at SCOTUS before the civil war. SCOTUS has always been a reactionary bulwark against good and popular legislation, the Warren Court that gave SCOTUS its good rep was an aberration that should have been completely nullified with Florida v. Gore in 2000.
True, but I more meant that it seems like they're trying to undo federal supremacy and revert the US back to an 18th, early 19th century version of itself where all the states bordered on being independent countries.
I think that's the goal, but the difference between now and then is that corporations are much more able to fill the power vacuum that that leaves. Expect to have planned economies run by Wal Mart and Google for the benefit of the billionaires while everything the government currently does except furnish a police and military fades away.
You might want to look at SCOTUS before the civil war. SCOTUS has always been a reactionary bulwark against good and popular legislation, the Warren Court that gave SCOTUS its good rep was an aberration that should have been completely nullified with Florida v. Gore in 2000.
True, but I more meant that it seems like they're trying to undo federal supremacy and revert the US back to an 18th, early 19th century version of itself where all the states bordered on being independent countries.
I think that's the goal, but the difference between now and then is that corporations are much more able to fill the power vacuum that that leaves. Expect to have planned economies run by Wal Mart and Google for the benefit of the billionaires while everything the government currently does except furnish a police and military fades away.