Immigration is not inherently bad per se, but it must be accompanied by integration into the larger community that is the United States. (and the first order of business is: “you don’t break into our Country and expect us to keep you.”)

We are not a “salad,” we’re a “stew,” and that doesn’t depend exclusively upon a homogeneous ethnic make-up, it depends more upon an allegiance to the homogeneous concepts & culture of “being-an-American, or becoming-an-American.”

The left however, has almost completely subverted what it means in practice, to “be an American.”

“People” are the same everywhere, it’s our (historically organized) post Enlightenment, Economic & Political System, that has shown to be superior to all other systems in practice.

As well– I fully empathize with European countries that have historically been more homogeneous ethically— you folks are even less prepared to deal with massive unchecked indiscriminate immigration, than we are, and it’s tearing us apart.

Alex: The US has always been an incredibly diverse mixture of people from many different cultures. What has changed is that in the past we focused on what each individual could accomplish, freely. Today, we focus instead on their race, ethnicity, national background, none of which matters and only encourages bigotry.

In a free society, it doesn’t if people are different. What matters is what they do to succeed, within that diverse society.

Julie: Just remember that the fundamental reason for this complicated American governmental system was to protect freedom. Freedom must rule. Any laws we pass must always keep that in mind, since that approach above all has shown that it is the best way to promote prosperity and wealth.

I would however put forth— that’s not exactly the way our “government” was set up. The separate and sovereign States, caused the Federal government into existence. (We don’t work for the Feds, they work for us.)
Our whole system is designed to push decision making & diffuse power, down to the smallest political subdivision that can realistically handle the governance required by the people. None of this was designed for efficiency per se, it was designed to disperse power among competing institution’s.

So I found this post when I googled “who does it better, State for Federal Government.” I am wondering if our government does not need an evolution so to speak.

Your article has helped me to think that we do need an evolution. While it can be worrisome that the Federal Government could become corrupt with so much power, our beautiful system has so many checks and balances that this is not a very likely outcome.

However, what i read is if a person is living in a local system that they disagree with, the resolution is that they can move away if they don’t like? That doesn’t sit well with me for some reason. Seems like a sad kind of unrooted life :( Of course that is unless someone enjoys moving all the time :)

I am voting for programs to be in place for benefits, protections and well-being of the citizens of this country. Thank you, this article is helping in my research of these powers between local, state and federal.

If you think about it, in a company that you work for, it is not the workers who have the most power, right? It is the CEO, the President the executive director, whoever is highest in charge (=Federal), then the managers/supervisors (=State) and then the workers. If the CEO is smart, they are going to work along with the State and Locals in order to make sure they are in touch with and gaining the most connection and information from those levels to operate the best.

Thank you for this discussion _()_
Julie Henderson

Although important, it is easy to identify problems in our society. I believe it is even more important to occasionally step back and layout a path to solving the problem.

When talking to friends, many of them on left, we have rarely disagreed about the problems themselves. Very few people will openly endorse corruption or pork, even when they are benefitting by it. But almost everyone wants a system that provides the best possible education for their kids, affordable healthcare good jobs etc…

A logical reaction is to think that someone more knowledgeable about the specifics should be working to solve these problems and big government is often seen as the avenue to enable this. If we can’t clearly state why this is a bad idea and more importantly provide an alternate solution we are never going to win the argument.

As this plays out it will become apparent how right they were related to human beings, goverance and power.

Lets see if their counter balances to power are able to hold our country together and survive mans nature, this will

be their ultimate test.