T And T Garage wrote on 06/28/17 at 13:00:26:justin_o_guy2 wrote on 06/28/17 at 12:52:24:If you joined a club and the reason for joining was Mutual Benefit, but over time it changed and You weren't benefiting any more.
Are you wrong to disassociate?
Thank you for the textbook strawman....
This Country is NOT a club. Take a history class and a civics lesson. Jog makes a fair point that just can't be dismissed.
No, the country is not a club, but it was much closer to one back then. States rights was a real thing then, not a forgotten concept like today. Hell, weren't the two states the Hatfield and McCoy's were from seriously considering sending their state militias to invade each other to fight on their side's behalf? Seem to remember that.
The leftover pain of the civil war and 17th amendment more than anything, watered down states rights which erased the idea of a "club". We are dominated by a Federal Government now, for good or bad depending how you look at it.
But, objecting to this ridicules fad we're going though of removing any statute that someone finds offensive does not make someone pro-slavery, anti-black or the silliest of all, pro-Hitler.