Brilliant Comment at Red State

I would add more, but I just don't have to. He's pretty much said it all.  The Gunslinger

DerKrieger (Diary) Thursday, January 26th at 2:10PM EST

I have said it…and will continue to say it. If we want to downsize the federal government and keep ourselves gap from becoming slaves then we MUST restore the 10th Amendment and return to federalism because we CANNT count on electing enough conservatives to counter the Left and

Stop placing all of your eggs in the federal basket. Concentrated power is the Left’s goal, ours should be the exact opposite because tyrants can’t manage distributed power. Decentralization is their weakness and our strength.

If Obama wins it is even more crucial that we erect a state level bulwark against his unconstitutional power grabs. Federal power relies on cooperation. If there is no cooperation, central government power collapses!

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison

Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690