Northwest Indiana Discussion

Someone posted this on another forum. It nicely sums things up.

On Zoellar's recent proposal to confiscate Indiana's political primary:

This entire so-called conflict between States' jurisdiction and federal power is as false now as it was at the inception of the civil war. We are the "United" States and all powers not enumerated in the federal constitution are reserved to the states. Where do people like these Zoeller-types come from? The primary elections are by far and away precisely where we have an actual choice, as well as when our votes are the most meaningful and free.

How is it this guy has the implicit backing to even the propose such a subversion of well-established democratic participation? Talk about regressive...what happened to the exemplification of a government of the People; for the People; and by the People? This is nothing but legalized political aggression against each citizen of Indiana. Zoeller seeks to evoke and resurrect a constitutional framework of jurisdictional issues that reach all the way back to the failure of the Articles of Confederation, which epitomized the apex of state's rights. But he conveniently omits the Second Continental Congress, convened in an attempt to amend those Articles circa 1787-1789 during the post-revolutionary war period. The Articles framework of 13 sovereign nation-states did nothing but introduce, and advance, the sheer financial ruin & ensuing socio-political-econ chaos from the lack of a unifying central legal authority, one that nearly destroyed what the British could not.

In the end, the Hamilton & Madison's federalist vision and arguments prevailed and the founders literally junked the States' rights-oriented Articles of confederation and enacted our current constitution, that required the Bill of Rights.

Zoeller's false evocation of state's rights as problematic is precisely that advanced by the Confederates of Dixieland, in its effort to perpetuate the landed tobacco & cotton gentry that dominated plantation politics. It's bullshit! May as well speciously invoke Cliven Bundy's sovereign individual as a justification to avoid paying a million dollars owed in grazing fees and fines.

Lastly, the only thing missing here is the likelihood that Zoeller knows this position is immune to criticism from leading Indiana Democrats, who confiscated our last Senate primary with the timely untimely decision by Sen. Evan Bayh to step down, after the window for primary registration for the race had passed.

I've seen that page! I know its just me and you can call me crazy but it seems that some poster there named "George Stoya" has totally glommed your style--lots of references to philosophers and early American leaders, mucho legalize and high-minded concepts, never uses one word when ten will do--that sort of thing. He comes off as some sort of Cliff Clavin-Jeremy Hillary Boob hybrid.

The poor schmuck. In whatever Region-oriented forum he choose to contribute, maybe 1-3% of the readership has even a sliver of a chance of digesting even a portion of his bilge. The rest is composed of drunken, half-witted steel workers, obsequious municipal employees, wannabe Lake County Democratic party toadies, and proud holders of GED's who can tell you with whom Mayor McDermott took lunch every day last week but would roll their eyes and call you an elitist if you asked them what a "reciprocal" is or in what century the Civil War was fought.

He has a tough row to hoe, trying to reach an audience better versed in the speeches of Rudy Clay and Karen Freeman Wilson than in the oratory of Abraham Lincoln and who can hold forth on "Bob" Stiglich, Tom Philpot, and Robert Pastrick with more reverence than they can about Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin.

You should consider suing his ass.