(July 5, 2017 at 6:45 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(July 5, 2017 at 6:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: From the article:
I wonder how many small-government Republicans will have the cojones to stand up against this? I wonder how many NRA members terrified of gun registration because of hypothetical government attempts to track owners are okay with this gambit of Trump's?
I'd better invest in an upgraded hypocrisy meter ... I get the sense my current one is about to shit the bed.
There are, in my estimation, very few small government Republicans. They seem perfectly content to have an enormous, bloated military - at the expense of programs that would actually, you know, help the people. They are apparently perfectly happy having large government when it suits them, just as they're perfectly happy to have the government insert itself into things which are none of it's business - reference the article in the OP.
Oh, I hear you -- that's entirely the point of my dig. They pay lip-service to the ideal small government, and indeed appeal to it as they attempt things like cutting apart the social safety net or ACA.
In a gay-marriage discussion about five years ago on another forum, a noted conservative there (and a strict-reading Constitutionalist) was arguing against gay marriage, and as someone much more Libertarian then than I am now, I ripped him a new asshole about his mealy-mouthed crap ("You want a small government, but you think the government should be able to tell individuals who they can and cannot share their lives with?!").
The overwhelming majority of them are full of shit. But this time, their hypocrisy will be abetting an attack on our most prized institution -- the secret ballot.
