Some folks are in favor of just about any new law that gives government officials more control over our daily lives, from forcing us to buy health insurance to telling us who we have to hire and how much we have to pay them. Yet many of these same individuals get their undies all in a bunch when law enforcement attempts to enforce existing laws.
The most recent example is the passage by Arizona’s democratically elected legislature of a law that would allow state law enforcement officials to request proof that individuals are not breaking federal immigration laws.
I have little doubt that were the immigration laws ones with which these folks agreed they would welcome rather than challenge their rigorous enforcement. What they object to, then, is not the enforcement of the law, but the law itself. And instead of doing the hard work of gaining democratic support for the revision of the laws they dislike, they try to emasculate those laws by declaring the methods used to enforce them unconstitutional.
The left has been doing this for decades. When their point of view is in the majority they stridently support the democratic process. But when it’s in the minority, they eschew democracy in favor of bogus constitutional arguments.
The tactic may be cynical, but it works. Because the next best thing to democratically repealing a law you personally dislike is undemocratically rendering that law unenforceable.
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