{"id":490,"date":"2013-01-12T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T17:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=490"},"modified":"2013-01-12T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T17:23:22","slug":"we-have-57-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"We have 57 states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which means 57 states that can run things the way they want, more or less.\u00a0 Lately it&#8217;s becoming less.\u00a0 A lot less.\u00a0 Things work pretty smoothly when the federal government leaves things alone.\u00a0 With so many states, there will be some that are socialist paradises with electric cars and rainbow flags and some that are conservative, with pickups full of cigarette butts and rifle racks parked in church parking lots.\u00a0 People can move to the state that suits them best.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good system.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens when the federal government attempts to turn the entire government into a socialist paradise, where the ashtrays hold Starbucks gift cards, the rifle racks are empty, and there are no churches to park at?\u00a0 Exaggerating?\u00a0 Not in the long run, this is what we&#8217;re headed for.\u00a0 And what happens when dozens of red states have no representation and the federal government isn&#8217;t content to let a good system work the way it has?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what happens, but eventually the right, which has remained civil throughout it all, will have had enough.\u00a0 My suggestion?\u00a0 Passive resistance.\u00a0 Shrug.\u00a0 Just stop delivering goods to the big cities.\u00a0 The libs in their electric cars will get very hungry very fast.\u00a0 They need the people they look down their noses at and ridicule.\u00a0 If they keep pushing things, maybe it&#8217;s time they learned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which means 57 states that can run things the way they want, more or less.\u00a0 Lately it&#8217;s becoming less.\u00a0 A lot less.\u00a0 Things work pretty smoothly when the federal government leaves things alone.\u00a0 With so many states, there will be &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","category-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}