Waging Civil War, Any Which Way We Can

All ACROSS THE FRUITED PLAIN, a sort of civil war rages between liberal communities and conservative state governments, and it applies to much more than Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender rights and wrongs, although that is the topic of greatest interest, at least in the media. City governments, for example, are much more inclined to raise the minimum wage than state governments, which in turn are much more inclined to raise it than the federal government. The farther up the political ladder we go, the less generous we become, to workers, as corporate control manifests more fully. Most states, however, are showing some degree of flexibility on this matter, perhaps realizing that by raising minimum wage, they are creating an entire new class of consumers, which will then increase demand for goods and services, which businesses can then provide for their own profit, without fearing the specter of over production, the scourge of depression economics. Local governments are also mandating paid sick leave, and all sorts of benefits for workers, to the consternation of Chambers of Commerce all across America. Fracking is the other big controversy between local and state governments. Often municipalities don't want it anywhere near, but state governments do. Can you imagine such a thing - not wanting to suffer the slings and arrows of man made earthquakes in one's backyard? And no, the new rash of earthquakes is caused by fracking, and would not have otherwise occurred; Oklahoma, for instance, never had many earthquakes, until massive amounts of water were violently pumped into the ground, breaking up rock formations. We notice that it is the conservatives who oppose local progressive ordinances, the same conservatives who usually insist that the more local and less centralized the government, the better. Our conservative brethren and sistern would also do well to remember that sexual predators have many more, and far easier opportunities to prey upon people than going to the trouble to have their gender changed surgically, in order to legally enter the restroom of their newly refurbished gender, and prey.