Mortkat wrote:Again, the element of the ridiculous creeps in. On another thread, some have excoriated my positions when I mention Clinton because he is no longer president, as if there is an impermeable wall through which ideas and influences cannot pass thrown up on election day.
It is the same with elections. We are a large country whose citizens interact multiple times every day through travel and the internet. As Fedral mentioned, citizens are free to contribute to legislators even if they are not residing in the state of the legislator. George Soros wields a great deal of power and affects many many races since he gives millions to the Democrat Party.
That is the way it should be. We are not citizens of "Arizona" primarily but citizens of the United States of the United States of America.
I suppose that is the modern attitude. I think perhaps quite a few of the Founders of this nation may have considered themselves citizens of their state, first and foremost, and then also citizens of the United States.
Perhaps this is because without the sovereignty of each state being respected , then the states cannot be considered 'united' in a free will sense. If a small group of states is able to subject the greater number of states to their will, then those subjected states are no longer sovereign, but subservient.
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