Posted on 11/14/2017 4:21:50 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
According to a recent article in Vox, conservatives who denounce government overreach aren’t really concerned about burdensome regulations.
No—it turns out the “language of small government” is really just “a handmaiden to ethno-nationalism.”
Proof? The author, David Roberts, points to a 2016 New York Times story that depicted a few white men in rural America venting their anger over regulations against “coal rolling”—the practice of modifying diesel truck engines to spew thick black smoke.
Apparently, being a blue-collar white man who likes spewing black smoke into the air makes you a white nationalist. And apparently, spewing black smoke into the air is the essence of liberty and of limited government.
Roberts is both misguided and self-deluded, as he conveniently overlooks a few important factors.
Most worrisomely, he ignores the fact that bureaucratic red tape and regulations are a burden to everyone, regardless of race—and they impose particularly heavy costs on poor people and minorities.
Why Limited Government Matters
The Constitution dictates that the American government is one of limited, enumerated powers, separated into three distinct branches with three distinct roles.
Any branch granted power by the Constitution can do only what that particular power grant authorizes it to do, and the Constitution does not grant powers generally to the government “as a whole.”
The powers not granted expressly to one of the three branches of the federal government are reserved to the state governments.
This principle of vertical power sharing between the national and state governments is called “federalism.”
Justice Anthony Kennedy once beautifully explained the principle, even if he has not always been consistent in upholding it:
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
"...coal-rolling with modified diesel truck engines..."
The saddest thing I heard recently was Justice Clarence Thomas asking what we had in common. Sad because it was true.
Obama brought the idea the Constitution was a ‘charter of negative liberties’ mainstream. A real blow.
The 6 readers of Vox think you are wrong.
Nationalism doesn’t fit well with small government in Any event.
Every academic, professional, political, and media organization that has a race in its name is an exemplification of ethnonationalism, and there are thousands of those in the United States, with the race in the name of almost all of them being something other than White.
LOL
That's a good one!
They obviously did not take their meds, either.
Too bad how “white nationalism” is considered a bad thing because that is exactly what has made America the wonderful place that it is.
“White nationalism” did no such thing.
Love of God is what made America the wonderful place that it is.
Well, that’s the way it was set up.
It’s all right there in black and white...
CA....
Vox and the left as a whole intentionally misunderstand and slime small government supporters with their go to, one size fits all opponents, charge of racism. Bleep’em!
Black Power & Hate Whites = GOOD
Just being white = BAD
America is being governed by what the least productive, least educated, least knowledgable, most dependent on government handouts and most criminal 13% of the population wants.
The nation spends hundreds of billions on education and scientific research then disregards all the knowledge gained and lets dumb-asses like Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton and Colin Kaepernick drive public policy.
Small government is equal to White Nationalism? Jeez, my friend who is black doesn’t know he is white. Are liberals stupid or are they Anti-American? Both I guess...
And numerous liberals and Black leaders seem perfectly content to have that portion of the population stay that way.
Remember when Obama was in office and black “leaders” insisted the word “socialist” was the new “N-word”. They were desperately trying to shut down any discussion that questioned whether blacks were automatically entitled to white peoples’ wages (as Obama strongly felt they were).
“White nationalism” did no such thing.”
Let’s say Love of God plus White plus Nationalism.
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