RE: Get ready: Next year's NC Senate race is going to be really dirty

The "progressive era" in the first decades of the 20th century saw massive growth of political centralized power in D.C. and set precedents for further power grabs over the following century. Perhaps it is a post hoc fallacy, but the 16th and 17th amendments precede massive wars, inflation, taxation, regulation, and more. This also follows the Spanish-American war with its effects on the US trying to become another colonialist empire stretching to the Phillipenes. I'm an anarchist of sorts, but my offer of compromise includes strict constitutionalism and reversion to pre-16th amendment limitations on federal power. No one wants to meet me halfway...