If someone commits murder in the first degree , the absolute minimum needs to be life without parole . A couple rapes should also get you life . And we need to start executing more people with DNA evidence , of course . Dude commits like 10 rapes and gets convicted with DNA evidence ? Fuck that guy , death row . I don ' t think we should be executing without rock solid DNA evidence , but we should execute for more crimes than we currently do . <| sep |> sorry for the wait ! had to call my network provider , omw <| sep |> Liberals were never against state ' s rights . They were against state ' s rights which were code for segregation . whistlepoliticsLiberals tend to be more inclusive and empathetic , so they tend toward more federal implementations of policies because either it is more efficient like healthcare or effective because of interstate issues like environmental concerns that don ' t respect borders , or because they are fighting for minorities in states where it measures would never pass , because of republican ' s generally antiminority policies , but not necessarily against states setting their own agenda . State rights are fundamentally sound , and the idea that ' s states with the best policy ' s win and spread to other states is great . The problem is that right wing politics works best on uninformed masses and those are generally rural . I was born and raised in MS , and currently live there , I can say it . And this mass has been exploited by in recent decades by republicans , and the unfairness of it has tickled spidey sense of liberals who can ' t stand the injustice of it . In some ways , the smug liberal myth is true . Liberals do believe that they can make things better than what republicans have given them . You might rightly argue that implementing such policies would worsen national economics by increasing entitlements , but you could also quite accurate argue that spending on the war machine diverts much needed money and increases taxes , and letting big business pocket enormous profits . And while it is true that the population at large tends to favor people who support those policies , you could argue that it is more base instinct and media fear mongering than a realistic assessment of values , liberalism is a conscious fight against that reactionary politics . And you can only fight against that at a national level . It is also why you see democrats focusing more on federal instead of local elections . For democrats , the bigger issues are national , and republicans have taken local ones because its cheap and they can ' t win in a contest of ideas . EditProofDrug legalization has mostly been state by state . This is a policy that actually be effective on a local level and you see liberals fighting for it there . Notice that there is component where you need national control to not enforce federal control over these local decisions . Minimum wage fights . Again , can be done on a local level . It harder , but it arguable more efficiently executed since areas have vastly different costs of living .