What I find funny, is both sides have major issues with Federal Power. What I find even funnier is that both sides try to use federal power for their own ends.
As for the "moderates" on both sides of the aisle. Whether you are talking about John McCain or Lincoln Blanche, they are in service of a group of bankers in Manhattan. Their policy is not moderate.
Quite frankly, if the federal government didn't have this giant pool of money to play around with, they wouldn't be the assholes that they are, no matter which party was in charge.
In the late 19th century early 20th century we made two stupid changes to our constitution. We made Senators directly elected, instead of being filtered through state legislatures (the intention was a group of men who were not faced with re-election but with keeping the legislatures in their states happy, it was meant to give the state legislatures a voice in Washington)
The second was the income tax. When we past that, we moved funding of government operations from taxing imports, to that of taxing work done in the country. There was a control in the market, you can only tax an import so much.
At this point, I'm more prone to trust the tyranny that is Harrisburg than the tyranny that is D.C.
Others haven't reached this point.
