Incrementalism

Many pundits lately have been warning about the dangers of incremental expansion of federal powers steadily creeping into private lives. For example, just now Minnesota legislators are considering requiring a new license to drive a boat. Incrementally, the state is licensing every aspect of Minnesotan lives, and we have less liberty, each year. We let our freedom and independence be taken from us a piece at a time as the modern Leviathan grows bigger and bigger. This is why the gun rights people do not and must not trust the Left on banning gun rights. They will start with background checks. They will then register all private gun ownership in America. They will the move to license, based on passing a psychological evaluation, or refuse to license all gun owners. They will finally pass legislation to confiscate all guns in private hands. We lose our liberty a little at a time, incrementally. Intellectuals on the Left accuse NRA leaders of being extreme in opposing even the slightest, most modest, the most reasonable restriction on regulating private gun owners. Leaders at the NRA know the recent history of incrementalists in most other areas of American life where the government has incrementally extended control over private lives. Incrementalist are devious, mean, power-hungry and completely untrustworthy. They are not moderate. They are stealthy liars on the Left. Confiscation is their goal and they are fanatical ideologues that talk moderate to swing over and deceive the masses while they extend federal and state power reach into private hands. There are two solutions. Lovers of liberty must oppose forcefully any control on gun rights. Then they must push a counter-incremental decentralist, anarchist, libertarian agenda of devolution of federal power and size to release power back to the people. If the majority of the people adopt this as their goal, they can begin to cut the Leviathan down to size.