Saving Real America

I'm not a libertarian, sociobiology has shown us that group-selection trumps individual selection, and I like using “experts” in making decisions, but I am certainly a regionalist, and I can agree with Bill Kauffman that before we fully develop the decentralist political movement we need to rediscover the places where we live. The glory of America is not with its wars, or the vulgar entertainment industry, our greatness resides in our regions, which are missed by our “placeless rulers” in government and in business.

I want to see the regionalist movement grow, affirming our wide differences, with the separation of regions and states, while still cooperating---and the decentralization of the arts also. If we had remained basically a nation founded by Northern European Christians there probably would have been more harmony in the nation, but our immigration policies went in a different direction, and therefore now more than ever the decentralization of regions and states is necessary, to keep order between different ethnic cultures in America.

Let the federal government do its main job of protecting the independence and freedom of real American regions and states, internally and externally. As James Scott says, radical revolution, such as secession etc, almost always ends up with a state more powerful than the one it overthrew---the wisdom of conservatism is in knowing that reality does not always allow us to fulfill all our perfect dreams.  We are lucky to have a Constitution that affirms this kind of light federalism..