Given the diversity of the country — diversity measured in ideology and geography, not just ethnicity — it makes no sense that so much power is centralized in Washington, where the federal government inevitably seeks to impose one-size-fits-all solutions.
Will the commander-in-chief be Mr. Biden? Or Mr. Trump? To roughly half the country, the half that loses either outcome will be scary.This scariness came clear when Education Secretary Miguel Cardona was asked about conservative activists protesting such matters as transgender mandates in the schools. “I don’t have too much respect for people that are misbehaving in public,” Mr. Cardona answered, “and then acting like they know what’s right for kids.
What to do? Fortunately, we already have the answer: the U.S. Constitution, which delineates the power of the states to decide key policy issues. It’s called federalism, or states’ rights. The hope, of course, is that good ideas could be replicated, if other states were interested, while bad ideas could be canceled, with the damage being limited to the single state that did the dumb thing.
It shouldn’t be surprising that two different sets of U.S. citizens living 1,500 miles apart have widely varying opinions. Is it so bad if they do? If they do, shouldn’t both opinions be respected?to the federal government, the powers “are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Since there’s no mention of the Department of Education in the Constitution, the rights of the states come before the power of the Department of Education.
Given the presidential polls, it’s more than possible that Mr. Trump can win. If he does, he might well appoint someone such as Mr. Walters to fill the education slot in his Cabinet, in which case, the same 10th Amendment that protects Oklahoma also would protect Massachusetts. If it protects red, it also protects blue. Bay Staters might not have always thought of states’ rights as their friend, but if Mr. Trump is president, they’ll think anew.
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