Elections and Jeffersonians
I generally try to avoid politics on this blog because it has always been fairly religiously oriented. My over-arching political mantra is Salvation cometh not from Politicians. As most of my readers know, I am a leftover Jeffersonian agrarian. There are not too many of us left on the Federal level. We certainly aren't welcomed in either branch of the uniparty. We believe in State sovereignty and real Federalism are really the only things that keep the Republic together. Top down control from the center was precisely what the Founding Fathers wished to avoid. Even ardent centralizing power people like Adams and Hamilton would be horrified at the size and scope of the American Federal government, the biggest bureaucracy the world has ever created. Case in point: Alexander Hamilton ran the entire US Department of the Treasury for six years with three employees, one of which was part time because he farmed. I would not even care to guess how many employees work at or with the US Trea...