The Wrongs of Centralization And the Solution of The States
The ambitious machinations of the few, however powered, are nothing to the harmony and good will of a people so determined and acting in the spirit of Liberty.
The pernicious evils of States Rights have been portrayed with the fiercest of language and fiery rhetoric that one devoid of true elegance possibly can; for those who stand against States Rights dimly shout “Racist”, “Bigot”, “Nazi” and, yet they know not the meaning of those words or that of States Rights. They have attempted to frighten the general public and raise in them the truest of fears, staking their purpose on the idea that the only rightful antidote to such a poison is the strong salve of central government. They stand in the streets, surround the Supreme Court, chase legislators and judges about our Capital with fists raised crying “Freedom”, yet not one of them wishes to be free from the tyranny of central government! They yearn for its yoke as they bleat and stamp their feet. They are mere cattle, unaware that the foreman who drives their herd has something altogether else in mind for them. It is because of the foreman, and not the herd, that we must reaffirm the sovereignty of the many states and rescind as many of the powers delegated as possible.
The evils of the foreman’s extreme, that seductive notion that takes a temporary power and makes it permanent is what provides us with so many of our miseries today. A state of unlimited central authority can never last long, for structures that out measure and outweigh their base in the grossest of ways will surely topple in time, collapsing under their own misallocation of natural proportion. Order and security are what the central government continually cites as it attempts to justly reason its everlasting expansion. The herd hears what it wants of this and drives the foreman’s narrative so that all he must do is have his hands mind the herd a little left and a little right as the mass moves forward to eventuality. But order and security, however they may be disguised in modern language – right to a safe abortion, right to be safe from guns, right to be safe from white culture, right to redefine language, right to deny biology on the grounds of new gendered order, right to be free from climate change – all are designed to strip States, and thus the citizens of those States, of their natural rights and centralize power under the banner of general government.
Order and security in this context, as driven by the progressive herd, does not seek to shelter the people beneath the equality of the law, for if they did then the many States would each be able to govern themselves as they saw fit, for the laws of one people do not justly or equally represent the laws of another. The progressive order in California which values the free usage of drugs, and the allowance of petty crime and robbery is not representative of the values which the people of Virginia espouse. Truly, the allowance of petty crime and robbery in California does not represent any value at all, however, if the herd seeks its own destruction let that destruction remain penned in. I should rather lose the whole of a pen than that of the whole yard. Equal representation under the law requires that people of distinct and sovereign states be able to lawfully establish for themselves a government, regulations and procedures which best fit and serve those who must live beneath its shelter. The people of New York have no more right to legislate nationally or through the federal judiciary (as seems the current custom) to the people of Florida than some other foreign power whom we are in treaty with does to the people of the many States. The sovereignty of the States as outlined in “The Principles of 22’”, “The 15th Letter to the American People”, and “A Resolution for the Retention of Liberty via Nullification and Interposition” must be seen as modern building blocks whose purpose is the reestablishment of States Rights in the modern context.
We have, due to the Progressive order (which both Beltway Democrats and Republicans are a party to) been led headlong into the irons of servitude, a heavy despotism whose bureaucratic expanse makes it difficult to even locate the source of subjugation. And it is because of this difficulty that we must not seek to simply change something, or several things, about federal government at the federal level. That would not yet be enough, as it would be like changing a spoke on the wheel of wagon that is fully engulfed in flames. It would be of no purpose. This is why we must recall powers, rescind that which the States have delegated and return as much power to the States as possible. The federal bureaucracy fails to function if the many States lawfully fail to heed its orders. It’s not the foreman’s mind we seek to change; it’s the freeing of the herd we seek. For in freeing the herd we make the foreman obsolete and unnecessary without ever having to change his mind or even address him. It is through the rescinding of powers that he turns immediately into an empty figure who is no longer a foreman, but simply a man. No longer the driver of a herd but a lone figure. It is this that we seek with States Rights. We wish the people to be free and no longer driven at the expense of their own lives.
I congratulate those who seek a return to good government, for that great earthly blessing, is more easily obtained than circumstances may portend. The folly of the conspirators who seek our servitude is that it only takes the people of the many States, or perhaps a single state, to act on their own behalf to rectify the wrongs of centralization by returning the natural rights of men and States to their original place. The ambitious machinations of the few, however powered, are nothing to the harmony and good will of a people so determined and acting in the spirit of Liberty.
Be Kind To Your Neighbors,
Cultural Husbandry, 1776/2022
Bravo.