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Who would be the first county to bring back tarring and feathering?

I always favored public hangings for all the people to see.  This country has gone down hill after they stopped that

I always favored public hangings for all the people to see.  This country has gone down hill after they stopped that

It appears the last one was in 1936. So it does not appear that particular form of bloodlust had a whole heck of a lot to do with our nation‘s prosperity and general success.

Seriously, what the heck is just so wrong with the country and system we’ve already got?  Objectively, we have a very good, and still very young, country. 

Just because all the laws you want passed hasn’t happened doesn’t make it a bad thing. This is how the country worked for the last 200+ years, and we’ve done ok. 

Have you ever considered that some of your opinions, however implausible, may just be wrong?  

The only problem I have and will continue to have is that our congress and leaders seem content to spend us into oblivion. Other than that, we’re doing ok. 

What's the problem with an AR-15? It's just a rifle.

  It took 150 years to allow women to vote. 

Do you have any idea when France enfranchised women?  Or other European countries?

Most of my wine drinking friends in Cincy were quite liberal.  One lady came to me earnestly asking me to talk to her about "assault rifles", she was writing a letter to our congressman.  I explained the facts to her, and she nodded, and later showed me her letter, I sighed.  Nothing I had said sunk in, at all.  I just nodded.

People are SO invested in their beliefs that facts rarely have any impact.  She COULD have written a letter that was factual and asking for "common sense gun control", but she didn't, not that a perfect letter would have mattered.  She's not a dumb person,  but either didn't believe what I told her, or thought I was making it up.  Everything I said was completely factual.  It just doesn't matter.

Well, I guess you could say we've done okay.  But we did have a massive civil war.  It took 100 years after laws were passed for minorities to even begin to get equal treatment.  It took 150 years to allow women to vote. 

Honestly, my idea for counties' rights to replace states' rights is to better avoid the polarized continuing situation we're in.  I'll lump in 24-hour news networks with social media as setting us down this course of the radical voices becoming the loudest.
Like every conservative I know says they don't watch Fox News, but a whole helluva lot of people are, so where are they?? 
Imagine if we had a big war tomorrow and 20 year olds had to be drafted...imagine that cross-section of humanity doing anything resembling actual combat.

I just think that keeping politics local better serves everyone, and would turn the volume down from an 8 to a 4. 
And I could be wrong.  Duh.

FFS....we evolve.  The whole world evolves.  

Civil war...caused by slavery that was imported here by the Europeans.  And half the country rejected it from the get go.  Actually, more than half rejected it because only a few of the original 13 had slavery.  America whipped slavery....160 years ago !  Racism...taking a little longer but we're getting there...much slower.  

Women have had the right to vote for over 100 years.  Some states were earlier.  I'm not even sure most even cared about it at the time.  Can you imagine how much trouble it had to be to vote for the average rural American?  

Sure, Europe has a lot of the policies and things that you'd like to do here....only after a massive war that killed tens of millions of people and reduced some areas to rubble.  We must have had some really fabulous leaders at the end of WWII because instead of putting in some bullshit reparation's like WWI we helped them rebuild.  Massively successful.  And we even wrote a lot of the new formed countries constitutions.