Even nullification is a pipe dream. If states decide to ignore the feds, the feds just cut funding (like Trump threatened to do but didn't have the nuts to go through with).
Or... the feds just send thugs in to black bag any dissenters, dissolve state legislatures, institute martial law or any manner of violent methods.
Violence. Violence is the ONLY OUTCOME to our present situation.
Even if you think there are alternatives to violence. And even assuming those alternatives were at all viable, violent outcomes are strictly inevitable under these circumstances.
Despots always. Always. ALWAYS employ violence.
It's unavoidable at this point. The violence is going to happen one way or another.
Best to psyche ourselves up to it now and get our heads in the game before it's inevitably forced on us in due time.
Even nullification is a pipe dream. If states decide to ignore the feds, the feds just cut funding (like Trump threatened to do but didn't have the nuts to go through with).
Or... the feds just send thugs in to black bag any dissenters, dissolve state legislatures, institute martial law or any manner of violent methods.
Violence. Violence is the ONLY OUTCOME to our present situation.
Even if you think there are alternatives to violence. And even assuming those alternatives were at all viable, violent outcomes are strictly inevitable under these circumstances.
Despots always. Always. ALWAYS employ violence.
It's unavoidable at this point. The violence is going to happen one way or another.
Best to psyche ourselves up to it now and get our heads in the game before it's inevitably forced on us in due time.
If they withhold transfer payments, the state(s) then withhold tax remittances to the Federal Gov't. That sets up the showdown we want.
Whether and how it gets violent can go several different directions.
Here's where assumptions get challenged.