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Old 06-29-2018, 03:23 PM   #1493
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Re: But now I need a little give and take - the New York Times, the Daily News

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Yes. I understand that. What I do not understand is why Republicans/conservatives/whatever aren't constantly having this fight at the state level, even within their own Republican-controlled states. If the goal is to leave control of one's laws to the principles of each community in order to capture what is best for each individual community, one would think this would be a constant struggle against what someone outside of your community is forcing upon you.

Are you saying that if we left it up to the states to determine whether or not one could have an abortion that it's possible that because there are state representatives who are sent to the state legislature, they could come up with a solution that would permit certain areas of the state to allow abortions and other areas not? Because that's ridiculous. Each state would set the rule based on where legislators collectively (and the court system) came out on the law/individual rights, etc. And that's how it works right now at the federal level.

I realize the struggle is against federalism. But it seems like you're either with representative government or not. It seems stupid to talk about how awful it is at one level (federal) and then swear by it at another (state).

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Texas struggles with this quite a bit, because the cities are really progressive whereas the state as a whole* is, er, not. So the state has pushed back on efforts, for example, to ban fracking in Denton, ban plastic bags in Austin, and regulate Uber and Lyft in Austin and Lyft in Houston. And then there's the stupid ass bathroom bill which will come back up again next session. The cities and the state are particularly at odds regarding sanctuary city status right now.

Texas Republicans/conservatives/whatever PC term they're calling themselves now have no problem whatsoever with the inconsistency.

*The part that bothers to show up to vote. I read something today that said that the state's largest population will be Hispanic in 5 years, overtaking the non-Hispanic white population as the largest ethic group in the state. We haven't had a majority population in quite some time. I'm not saying that all Hispanics that vote vote Democrat, but it's about 66/33. It's just no one votes in this state. In part by design.
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