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Originally Posted by scottw
huh?...wonder why the federal government hasn't "stepped in" to Chicago then.... or yet?  people are actually dying there  routinely.... |
The key, as you clarify, is the FEDERAL Government. We have been so conditioned by the transformation of government in our country that people routinely refer to THE government, and by that they seem to automatically mean the Federal Government. And I don't think most even consider federalism with its separation of sovereign entities when they say THE government. Only when local issues or state issues are presented as such do most pay attention to differences. But, for a great segment of our population, THE government, particularly, the President, is the repository of power to fix all of our problems. When an accident occurs at a gun show in state X, and it is reported in the national media, the hue and cry is not that state X should "solve" the problem, but that THE Government has to do something.