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Our federal government is no longer relevant, get rid of all of them. It's rotten to the core.
State governments already duplicate much of what the feds do already, we'll be fine.
But then we'll get conquered by Russia or China! Just imagine what that would look like. We'd toil our lives away for a handful of oligarchs, get executed in the streets, and be shipped off to death camps. We'd have sham elections with no impact on public policy. Your ability to obtain nice things would depend on an arcane and opaque scoring system run by nefarious unseen overlords. There would be literal slavery.
I used to be big on States' Rights because I thought it made more sense for people to make rules more specific to them but then I realized the only reason politicians push that is to do whack shit like overturn abortion and now some are even arguing we should go back to when women couldn't work. If I was the president and I cut back rules so States could decide I guarantee laws like that would be passed within a week.
The more I read about it the more im glad that the federal government is strong enough to stop States from extorting or attacking each other (like how New York would basically bully New Jersey). I just hate that every election seems to be between morally bankrupt nepo-babies and it's been going on so long that the corruption would literally need a dictator to pull an El Salvador to fix