IMO it’s important to note the mainstreaming of so-called “State’s rights”. Once the most discredited of all ideologies, the extreme right has dug up that stinking corpse, slapped some lipstick on it, sprayed it with eau de horseshit, and are marching it around in some sort of bizzaro world’s Weekend at Bernie’s.
Now they have every moron and swindler in the world puffing up with importance and saying “state’s rights” as if that is some sort of get-out-of-the-looniebin-free card. It isn’t. They pretend it is a brave, principled position taken by those with integrity. It’s not.
The swindlers know its history, and in that category I count Damo. Damo is the King of both false equivalence and of the “who am i? where am i? how did I get here?” right wing hokey pokey. Just give him the beat and two seconds, and then watch him dance.
There is nothing principled about claiming that the federal government is tyrannical so we must create 50 different smaller states with tyrannical powers. Through its history from the very beginning, this ideology has been used to keep the n*ggers down, to keep the bitches in their place, and to empower and support a white, hierarchical, patriarchy. The idiots, and
I’ll let everyone figure out who those are, have never read the Federalist papers, and certainly not the anti-Federalist papers. They don’t know that the originating rallying cry of the anti-federalists, the “state’s rights” crew, was “they’ll free your n*ggers!” (Patrick Henry)
Just try running on a platform claiming it’s okay if individual states adopt laws that would punish the white male for glancing in what is deemed by some authority “ a sexual manner” at a black woman, by whipping him to death, and see what happens.
State’s rights has always been about empowering the ruling elite, and the white male, and disempowering the woman and the person of color. That is not principled. No one who supports it has “integrity”.
Then you have your 10th’ers like STY. STY is not an idiot, a swindler, or a hypocrite. He’s just bug-shagging nuts. He’s the guy you pray never moves in next door to you. But chances are he won’t because guys like him live on lots of land, in the middle of nowhere, and if you are on the spread next to his, you are probably thrilled he moved in and ran out to buy him the decoder book for your next double top secret underground meeting where you and three other nutballs are plotting to overthrow the government.
So you have your idiots, your liars and swindlers, and your nutballs.
Trust me, they are almost all white. Interestingly, they do have more female collaboration. However, historically this is not a mystery. White woman who collaborated with the patriarchy, embracing their own inferior position within that hierarchy, have always been rewarded, often quite handsomely. They could even have a black person tortured and killed for looking at them. And that’s power. The trick in later years, was fooling the lower classes of women to collaborate with this system which simply was never going to reward them. That was done with the culture wars which feed on hate and resentment.
State’s rights: a discredited, poisonous, and nonsensical ideology.