Special Guest: Donald Livingston founder of the Abbeville Institute and author of Rethinking the American Union. * We are in orbit around Charleston. * Arranged Marriages - Donald Livingston was all for it. * His point was that sex is a very strange thing. It is hard to get any kind of policy around it. * Look at the catastrophe of divorces and illegitimate children that surround marriage today. * There should be a little more of an “arrangement” with marriage. * Of course when you are 20 or so, you think you are invincible. * Even if it wasn’t arranged, this is a modern idea that you marry for “love”. No you marry for “children”. * Communist Experiment - private property hasn’t been eliminated here yet but that was one of the first things that was done away with. * New York, Vermont, New Mexico - passing acts in legislature laws of infanticide: it is bias to the radical free floating individualism. * Supreme Court would constitutionalize so called gay marriage. * Obama, both Clintons and more stated marriage was b/w a man and a women yet the Supreme Court just arbitrarily decided the opposite without much opposition. * Rethinking of the American Union - Founder of the Abbeville Institute * Institute was created to counter the Universities in the South and Southern Tradition. * Southern History is just not taught anymore due to political correctness. * Robert E. Lee - he was one of the most popular Generals * It was because of his character. * The Enduring Character of Robert E. Lee - book by Marshall L. DeRosa * Today if someone disagrees, the opposition immediately caves and adjusts accordingly. This would not have happened or even been an option 10 years ago. * Congress writing its own rules. * What Lincoln had to argue - simple authority. It is rooted in the American people as an aggregate. * Forming a Political Society of the American People - and they recognized the colonies as states. * States then were really like counties. * They accepted Federalism - QUESTION: what happens when there is a conflict b/w the two? Who decides the proper course of action? * This ends up being the Supreme Court. * Jeffersonian View: completely different from the Political Society. * Two different views of America and it is important to understand the two views. * Majority Rule - would be an absolute horror show. * Article 7 - Ratification of 9 states * If they have the power to call a convention to ratify then they have to power to do the opposite! * The states weren’t even allowed to vote then. * The Supreme Court wasn’t considered legitimate. * RUSSIAS SECESSION: The biggest PEACEFUL collapse in modern history. 15 states over a period of time negotiated a dissolution. Some states when their own way. * The Left is the party concerned about secession. * Trumps election was portrayed as illegitimate. * The Trump election simply wasn’t accepted. So Congress and all isn’t concerned about policies…..it is just a battle of legitimacy. * GDP of the world is $70 Trillion, the United States is at 3 TIMES that. * Texas, NY and Florida are larger than Japan. Japan has the largest GDP in the world. * Texas has larger GDP than all of Russia. * It cannot continue to be centralized. We are just too big. * People in their gut KNOW this is NOT working but they are all trained on the Lincolnonian * Model, they don’t know how to change it. * Abbeville Institute -
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