>how they want to live their own life as long as they don't tamper with my own. We are adults.

lol, you were then eaten by a bear of your own making.

You see, when you're deathmobile is f=mv2 down the highway you present a clear and present danger to every one around you. It doesn't matter if your 5, 55 or 95 physics gives zero shits about your libertarian ideas as your broke ass kills 3 people and leaves one a quadriplegic requiring millions of dollars in care for the rest of their miserable life.

>Unfortunately, that philosophy has been lost to time

Yea, guess what happens when you connect the world together so were milliseconds away digitally, and 3 days away from each other with modern travel. Suddenly the dumb shit we do effects everyone around us and in our profound ignorance make the world worse for everyone around us. Hyper-localized doesn't exist unless you want to dump all telecommunications in the trash and burn all the cars and planes the go back to horses.

You act like the founding fathers, if transported to today, would be completely incapable of making logically informed decisions based on the current state of the world, and not a world 250 years in their past.

> and people in coastal cities in California seem to feel perfectly comfortable lecturing ranch hands in Montana

And the people in Montana are perfectly fine with making laws at the federal level that effect people in California.