A bit of history: "States' Rights" advocates specifically were advocating "States' rights to enforce chattel slavery". The Fugitive Slave Act is a wild usurpation of States' Rights, but the slavers (who have become the modern Repulican party) didn't mind.

"They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

What is the quote from?

Jean-Paul Sartre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semite_and_Jew

Both parties are globalist TBH. I used to vote Repub but got out 15 years ago, disillusioned by the unapologetic hypocrisy. Would love to see a God-fearing minarchist or libertarian succeed but I know that’s not realistic.

Wait. Aren't the libertarians pretty much for global free trade and unlimited immigration? I'm sensing some cognitive dissonance here.

I believe we have different definitions of “globalist.” The dictionary says:

glob·al·ist /ˈɡlōbəlist/ noun 1.) a person who advocates the administering or planning of a political strategy, economic system, etc. on a global rather than a national basis.

“[Right-libertarian populists] are unapologetically anti-globalist while at the same championing free trade and a realist foreign policy.”[1]

Both parties have furthered the advancement of global rule, one world government, top-down planning. In different ways, to be sure. Repubs for example voted in JD Vance, a man who was led by Peter Thiel, who as you know is advancing the surveillance state with Palantir. Peter made him who he is, and certainly has his ear. And Dems marched in lock-step with other globalists around the world in 2021-2024.

Global free trade, where individuals and not politicians decide who to trade with, as I understand it, is the _opposite_ of the dictionary’s definition of globalism. It is the smaller government that Republicans ostensibly stand for and then don’t provide.

Get government out of the way and let people be people.

[1] https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/right-libertarian...

Power and control over our own Country. No more wives and daughters raped and murdered by illegal aliens. No more flushing foreigners with our own money, when our own families need it.

Let other countries take care of their own, until the US can safeguard its own.

> No more flushing foreigners with our own money, when our own families need it.

But $40 billion to Argentina and whatever Israel wants

I don't think the voters asked for either of those things. It is unfortunate

They did vote for the clown who did it, though, motivated by the kind of nationalist fears that make aiding Argentina look nonsensical.

Your wives and daughters are far more likely to be raped or murdered by native born Americans than immigrants.

Statistically obvious. But adding insult to injury is a hard no go for half the country.

I'm just gonna leave this reply here: whoever is for allowing uncontrolled immigration which has already resulted in the deaths and suffering of tens of thousands of Americans, is my enemy, and enemy of half the country. Downvote me all you want, because that's your job at this point. We'll meet at the ballot, hopefully never in the field.