[adrianN]

If you didn't have a fairly strong federal government, the US would become like the EU, basically unable to enact change in any even slightly controversial topic.

[icelancer]

This was one of the original anti-federalist arguments that has somehow hundreds of years later become adopted by leftists in the United States.

[adrianN]

I didn't know that. I live in the EU and frequently get upset because some country or other vetoes important change.

[squiggleblaz]

I'm pretty sure you missed the unwritten /s in the previous post.

[icelancer]

Apparently not, OP followed up.