re: #66 Flounder

What were they wrong about? Slavery for one, what else?

Seriously?

First of all, ‘they’ disagreed with each other on a lot of things.

Second of all, I’d say the idea of the states as ‘laboratories of democracy’ has been shown to be a horrible bust. Very occasionally, you get a positive thing that a state does in comparison to the federal government, but in general ‘states rights’ has meant oppression of minorities and race-to-the-bottom regulation.

Which brings the third, the fucked-up-way we appoint senators, so that the tiny population of Wyoming has as much influence in the US as the entire population of California. The ‘states’, even if one thinks they have value, were not created in anything like a rational or sensible way, but just pretty much random chunks of land.

The idea that we would not need a standing army, or that militias would continue to be useful, was also wrong.

That’s just off the top of my head.