We are seeing more of it as the Federal government is more paralyzed due to internal divisions in the country. We've already seen states declare themselves immigration "sanctuary" states where immigration laws will not be enforced, and then others declared themselves gun control "sanctuary" states where gun control laws will not be enforced. States have adopted their own fuel emissions standards. California announced it would ban ICE engines while Texas announced it will tax EV cars.

I'd strongly support more devolution and even a U.S. breakup, TBH. Local government is more accountable and I support localism and local autonomy whenever I can. I'd even support a situation in which states had their own currencies, citizenship rules, etc. I understand this is utopian, but more localism and distribution of power rather than concentration of power is something I generally support.

No. In fact, I think most people want more federal power. They just want that federal power directed in different ways.

For instance, the overwhelming popularity of federal single payer healthcare today signals that people want big government.

Cause it’s prone to failure? America tried the weak federal system where everyone had a different bank and different rules. It was essentially 13 independent smaller “states” than one nation.

Even now people are aghast when Texas limits abortion or tries to outlaw gay marriage or when California’s increased fuel standards affect the entire nation.

Additionally, it makes it impossible for states which would enact stronger gun control measures to enforce them when neighbor states just hand guns out in much less stringent manners.

It also has federal ramifications when gerrymandered districts affect the makeup of our federal law making bodies and increasingly populate them with far more right or left wing representatives than would occur in more balanced districts while disenfranchising voters who’re American systems.

I’m more on the side of California at the end of the day but we’re all Americans here in America, not Texans, Californians, or Iowans. It’s fine to have cultural differences (its what makes the country beautiful in a lot of ways), but the idea we should all just “figure it out with our neighbors” who’re our neighbors cause of relatively arbitrary lines drawn sometimes hundreds of years is a bit crazy and a gift to those who’d see a weak America.

I understand that this is too much of a reach back.. but there must be some consideration of the fact that a decentralized weak america over threw the globes strongest power. That power thought that Indians(asia) were just English. That australians, canadians, the western colonies were were just English. Eventually there was a realization that these political differences demanded the allowance for self determination. It seems, in order to keep a strong central Oneness, we must enfore coercive, destructive powers to enforce one region over another. The comment I am responding to seems imply a similar extreme; that Floridians are perfectly reconcilable under the name American as is an Oregonite, who are sepperated by 1,556 miles away! Or even that generational Virginians have much politically and culturally in common with generational Massachusettsans. I don't know what is best, truly, but I hope the united states does not become one large California, or Texas, or any ideology that presupposes the people of a specific region. I'll hop off my soap box. :-)