The South Was Right

There's a lot of buzz around the internet these days about secession.
Most apparatchnik pundits will tell you it's a ploy by the "lunatic fringe", or
by racist white supremicists, but it is not. Many folks are just too damn tired and outraged by the goings-on in DC. A few states are also engaging in nullifying federal laws, rendering those laws redundant within the boundaries of their respective states. This can only be seen as a good thing.
It is in this respect that the Southern Confederacy was correct. I refuse to get into a pissing match over the issue of slavery, for that is a moot point; we no longer have such an institution, and that was NEVER the issue during the War Between the States anyway. It only served as an expediant political tool by the Lincoln administration to further its war aims. What was the issue, and continues to be to this day, is States' Rights. These are the United STATES, a union of 50 differing little republics, who have bonded themselves together, but it would seem that those bonds are loosening. The Leviathan that is the Federal Government, has grown much too large for its britches and needs to brought to its knees. For far too long, far too many people have enabled this beast to consume and grow, and the attitude that it displays is not unlike that of Mandarin China, but we are not, nor have we ever been the "Celestial Empire", even thought there are many people who wish it were so.