re: #139 Shiplord Kirel

It is about rationalizing, rather than inciting, hatred of the federal government. The GOP’s gentry/grifter/wannabe base in that part of the world already hate the feds with a white hot rage, since it is the federal government that brings EPA, OSHA, the Department of Labor, integration, consumer protection, and countless other restrictions on their liberty. They can’t say so directly, at least most of them can’t, so they need a strawman they can hang their hate on. The hate is real, the stated reasons are bullshit.

Can you imagine the hellholes some of these states would be without some of the Fed agencies?

If people are making fun of the trash heaps left at the refuge in Oregon imagine that on a grand scale.

And yes, some states probably had some of that going on prior to people learning to freaking live a little cleaner forced by government to get their acts together.