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.
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