| This is a really fascinating clip, where the full range of crazy conservatism is on display. Glenn Beck sounds like a voice of reason (you can't make this up).
While Gary Marbut disclaims any regulation of guns whatsoever, Glenn Beck has the audacity to say that a background check may not be such a terrible idea.
He then moves on, either because he had been playing devil's advocate or because he realized his viewers don't tune in for sanity.
Interestingly, the march rightward then continues with Judge Napolitano suggesting that Montana should have a statewide law prohibiting local and state law enforcement from enforcing federal law. It is an interesting idea, but runs counter to the other right-wing demand that local law enforcement act as border patrol agents (a terrible idea in its own right).
What most people (including conservative lawmakers) find when they start seriously considering this is that threatening to kick the federal government out of a state makes some sense, except for the sheer size of federal aid to states.
Now, there's a separate argument here, that we should truly devolve power and have higher local and state taxes, lower federal taxes, and have states pick up more of the tab themselves for things like Medicaid, Interstate Highways, etc. That might have been possible at an earlier time and in a less complicated nation. The tenets of a hard-and-fast federalist system are hard to embrace in practice for the human mind, is my best guess. Americans identify mostly as Americans first and are highly surprised at the wild variation in laws between states.
Meh...not sure where this post is going. |
