But the senate in question is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what our States can do to protect themselves.

The vast majority of our practical options for nullification come from the intentional imbalance of practical power and forces in favor of the states and the people.

Unfortunately as many correctly noted the Federal government has grown very strong with a large contingent of practical forces. this + the polarization of the states against each other has serves to give the Federal Government a tool to crush nullification efforts. But that tool is still a limited and finite tool, a tool we can still overwhelm if we get enough states working together we can bleed their enforcement resources out of existence.

There is of course anther important reason our States at the ground level need to work together, we need to prevent each other from being used against one anther, such as ultimately happens in the civil war and very nearly happen in other cases.

There are many ways to do this, but it all comes down to the basic fact that the Federal government has been dominating us by means of divide and conquer, which is to say set us against each other so that it can uses each other to impose its will/control on the others thus bypassing the need to itself be strong enough to control all.

This is a standard tactic among tyrants to maintaining power, it fails if ever the people begin to realism they are being gamed and establish a 2ndary line of commutations between each-other in order to avoid being payed against one anther to the determent of all. Fortunately for dictators, that rarely if ever happens because people are generally ignorant, shortsighted, and greedy. A good dictator need only to keep them that way in order to continue to uses against each other them to maintain power over them all.

This is what the Feds in both federal party's have been doing to we the people, and thus our solution is clear.

To quote Samwise Gamgee, not if we kill them first. That, after all, is what the 2nd Amendment is all about. The massive re-arming of average Americans over the last 2 years is the best news our side could have asked for. Our enemies are ultimately cowards at heart — they assume we will roll over for their dictates because that is what they would do in the same situation. Just the *threat* of armed resistance may be enough to keep them in line.

I'd like to see a little more of what you're referring to here. Trading freedom for security is what this country has been about for the last decade and longer….

Note that the nanny state started in earnest after women were given the vote in 1920. (Women's groups also played a large role in getting Prohibition ratified the previous year.) In an earlier post here I advocated repealing the 17th, 23rd and 24th Amendments to help restore the 10th Amendment. If this female bias for security over liberty is indoctrinated, then it can be reversed with education — something a lot of feminized men equally need. But if it is grounded in genetics, then the 19th Amendment also must go.

All theses things go to the very heart of who and what we are as Americans!
To give them up or allow them to be usurped from us in this or any other way is and should be unthinkable to any true patriot!

This is the the truest and most noble of struggles for all mankind, this is the true common good, its not in subjugation to an all knowing all controlling State or "collective" its individual liberty! its freedom!

We were not born on this earth whether by the hand of god or the acts of nature to be subordinate slaves to a "all knowing and all controlling collective whole". We were born on this earth to be individuals, to think and act for ourselves and to face the consequences of our own artist.

To each according to his/her Merits, his ability, his choices and his actions as determined by nature and natures god NOT other men!

That is the American way! That is Individual rights! That is what freedom is all about!

This is far too important a thing to abandon for anything! This is who and what we Americans, what we humans are, this is why and how we exist! The right to choose for ourselves and face the consequence of that choice!