Yeah, Bobert said the same thing about five posts back. It's misleading.

"War between the states" does not necessarily follow from "concern about centralized power". And it's not about 50 separate little countries, it's about taking back decision-making power from the federal government.

If I may quote myself from another thread: Both parties and their elected officials, including Saint Obama, are nothing but shills for the same interest: the super-rich uber-capitalists who have controlled the US economy for over a century. These few people have decided to slam shut the window that opened after WWII and allowed a substantial number of the underclass to ascend to a relatively wealthy middle class status.

Their intent is to starve out the middle class (with whom they don't want to share their profits anymore) by running up such huge federal deficits that severe frugality measures "must" be put in place ("new spending to be offset with cuts elsewhere") - read: cuts in social spending, welfare, education, health and Social Security.

Now, they can only do this from a strong, centralized position of consolidated power in Washington, where they do their dirty work.