Now, I actually support the right to secede, but nullification is a way to avoid secession.
The Tenth Amendment Center, which was started by Michael Boldin, is covered extensively in Maddow's lie-report . She claims that it is a "conservative" group. The Tenth Amendment Center is not a conservative group. Maddow points out that the TAC has supported nullification of Obamacare and of gun laws; of course she fails to point out their stances on hemp and sending the national guard overseas.
She criticizes Georgia's food freedom act, but many progressives I know understand that small, organic farms are under attack from the USDA and FDA because they were captured by big Agra.
By including John C Calhoun and slavery in this report, she tries to link the Tenth Amendment Center to hate. Maddow and a professor she has on the show try to link the rise of the ideas of nullification to racists' response to a black president. Of course, the Tenth Amendment Center was founded in 2006 (I believe I've read that the REAL ID Act was a significant reason for starting it up, but I can't find anything at the moment) - by the way, Bush (he's white) was still president in 2006 and Obama was not even on the radar for presidential aspirations (at least not in a significant way).
This blog post was specifically about Maddow's attack on the Tenth Amendment Center, but one more point - forget about the fact that northern states were trying to nullify fugitive slave laws, and that some southern states cited this as a reason they seceded. So northern nullification led to some southern secession- but nullification (where history has shown is used AGAINST slavery) and secession are hateful, racist, and dangerous ideas.
Regardless of the facts, people who oppose the Federal prohibition of drugs and who want their governor to refuse to allow the feds to take national guard troops to fight in overseas wars are certainly bigots!
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