[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by photon

Man what's going on in North Carolina is kinda sad. Republicans called an extraordinary session to introduce a whole bunch of new bills. Extraordinary sessions are usually to respond to natural disasters and emergencies. I guess this emergency is that a Democrat won the governorship, since the bills are all designed to reduce the amount of authority and resources the governor has.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...cooper/510731/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/us...publicans.html

This is part of the overall governance issue the Democrats are very weak on. The Republicans have a massive strategy that attacks government and governance at all levels. They are executing a plan to institutionalize the system they want, and doing so at state levels. This is why they always fight for State's rights, as they own the legislatures and can kill all of the federal programs at the state level. The feds provide the money, but the states have to accept it and have to use it as desired. The Republicans are just better at schooling the system. Institutions like ALEC have made it possible for big business and think tanks to drive legislation through multiple states at once, making de facto law across the nation, and making drafting new legislation at the federal level difficult and precedent has already been set.