You seem to be stuck in the left-right Hegelian dialetic. There is more to this story than leftists unamerican rightists patriots. Ask yourself why does the federal government subsidize NFL teams in the first place. Why do state and local governments do the same? Do you even know half the stuff the government does with your money? You are being royally screwed and it isn't by leftists.
"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson
I say Left/Right, which btw does include Leftist Republicans (rinos) because the establishment is about control and globalism. The Left is about giving that control and power to these estsblishment globalists and the Right is not. The Right is about 'limited' government and powers left to States and individuals.
Am I wrong?
If you think the right is about 'limited government', I've got some ocean front property to sell you in Nebraska.
Really? What do you think the Right is about. And I'm not talking Rino Right. I'm talking Trumpist Right. Trumpist Right is all about limited power.
On the basis of what first priniciple? Any restraint on government power has to be predicated on the basis of moral law. Because congress can always legislate away more freedom and the supreme court can always reinterpret the constitution to fit their agenda. So my question to you is this: is the government the ultimate purveyor of moral facts and if not is there a law or moral principle independent of and superior to the legislation of governments.
I believe all this was already discussed and decided a long time ago by our founders ergo our resulting Constitution. The problem today is that people for some reason (their belief that it's outdated, that our founders couldn't have possibly been able to fortell the future yadda yadda) people seem to feel the need to re-debate the issue of our Constitution as though the wisdom contained in it is not timeless. I believe that ANY issue today can be addressed in THE most responsive to need for solution precisely by following the rules in the Constitution. Gay rights, radical Islamic terror threat, economic stability, etc etc. This I believe to be the mindset of today's what I call Right. Not most Republicans in the Republican Party and especially not at all any Democrats in the Democratic Party. I believe those two old Parties are now one political establishment which Trump (at least as far as the Republican Party is concerned) and his supporters are slowly morphing into the new Populist Party I guess you could call it. We're not interested in conjuring up old debate on the best way to run our Nation. We already know the best known to mankind. And it's through giving the States back their power, limiting the Fed to it's 'limited' role and bam! Making America great again....;)
The problem with your assessment of the constitution is that the fedeal government exceeded its legal limits long ago, and the resulting status quo is what people like yourself consider to be 'constitutional.' The truth is that the constitution has been radically altered from its inception. It is no longer a bed rock for this country. The original constitution did not authorize a personal income tax, it did not authorize a central bank to control the money supply and interest rates, it did not authorize
the government to dictate what substances you could put in your own body, it did not authorize a plethora of intel agencies to warrantlessly search your personal property, it did not authorize medicare, medicade, or any entitlement program; it did not authorize a government program for every problem in society. But all of these things and many more expansions of state power have been normalized, and forced to fit the 'limited government' mold. So I will ask you again: is the government the ultimate purveyor of moral facts and if not is there a law or moral principle independent of and superior to the legislation of governments?
I'm not sure what your beef with my views are and totally confused as to what your answer is. I do not believe that any of us has a better 'constitution' if you will, than the one we have now. Of course it's been subverted. And no, I do not believe all these years of subversion to be 'normal'. My goal is to keep the 'Constitution' the baseline of the ultimate perveyor of moral facts and no, I do not believe ANYTHING to be superior to that. Are you insinuating that you believe there is something independent of our form of Republic that is?
I think we should dismantle as much of these overreaches as possible ie: Federal dept of education, welfare, taxes, all of it!