10-20-2016, 09:33 AM
(10-18-2016, 05:57 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: What does it mean to you? Have you ever thought about the concept of it? Why we use it? How it works in the US compared to other countries? The various forms of it?
I'm just curious about what people on here think of and know about federalism.
When I see the term I think of old white men with a paranoia beyond that of Nixon, with a xenophobia that makes Trump look like the Good Samaritan from the biblical parable. I think of people who drank all the Libertarian Kool-Aid at the party and when everyone else got pissed off at them said, "Well, these Libertarians are clearly 'libtards' too," and withdrew into an anteroom to mock them and exorcise the liberal stain that they had been exposed to. I think of people who would call George Will a communist and Obama a Kenyan. I think of people who think America's greatest days were 220 or more years ago, and I marvel at how those people get out of bed everyday and back into it at night without leaving this hell hole for greener pastures.
Now, I want you - Belsnickel - to do for the term "Federalism" what Randal did for the term "porch monkey" in Clerks 2 - bring it back, redeem it, change my perception of it.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
