{"id":461037,"date":"2021-04-28T18:50:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461037"},"modified":"2021-04-28T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:50:27","slug":"knowles-three-cheers-for-big-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-three-cheers-for-big-government\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOWLES: Three Cheers For \u201cBig Government\u201d!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fknowles-three-cheers-for-big-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3982.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Montana state legislature passed a bill barring private companies from requiring that their workers receive the coronavirus vaccine as a condition of employment. \u201cUp to now Montana employers have respected the fundamental, personal, medical and religious freedoms of Montanans,\u201d explained Republican state senator Tom McGillvray, the bill\u2019s sponsor. \u201cHowever, that\u2019s not the case anymore. There are employers\u2026that are requiring and coercing employees to get vaccinations under threat of termination and intimidation.\u201d So Republicans fought back by coercing employers to respect their workers\u2019 right to refuse the new vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the atrophied \u201cconservatism\u201d of the past few decades, McGillvray\u2019s bill constitutes an illegitimate interference by \u201cbig government\u201d into the free choices of the \u201cprivate sector.\u201d But the Right\u2019s recent aversion to wielding political power has not caused freedom to flourish. Instead, decades of shilling for Big Business have led \u201cparts of the private sector\u201d to behave \u201clike a woke parallel government,\u201d as no less an establishmentarian than Mitch McConnell acknowledged earlier this month. Healthy citizens who would prefer to wait a while before receiving the hastily developed vaccine do not care who forces them to get the shot. If a private business tries to jab them, a government regulation may prove just what the doctor ordered to preserve their freedom.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day that Montana legislators moved to protect citizens from the medical demands of their employers, Idaho governor Brad Little signed into law the Fetal Heartbeat Preborn Child Protection Act, which prohibits medical workers from performing abortions after the baby\u2019s heartbeat can be detected. The law increases the size and scope of the government \u2014 as well it should. Idaho conservatives enacted the pro-life law over leftist pleas for \u201csmall government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho State Senate passed another expansive bill the day before when it voted to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools. The legislation instructs, \u201cNo public institution of higher education, school district, or public school, including a public charter school, shall direct or otherwise compel students to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to any of\u201d the racist axioms of Critical Race Theory. Not only does the bill expand the role of government in education; even more distressing for \u201csmall government\u201d conservatives, the law would restrict \u201cacademic freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>William F. Buckley Jr. famously dismissed \u201cacademic freedom\u201d as a \u201csuperstition\u201d and a \u201choax\u201d in&nbsp;<em>God and Man at Yale<\/em>, the book widely credited with launching the postwar conservative movement. No curriculum can ever be totally \u201copen\u201d because some things are true and others false, and teachers necessarily set out to encourage the former while suppressing the latter. Education rests on the existence of objective reality and our ability to understand the world \u2014 premises denied by Critical Race Theory. \u201cThere is a thought that stops thought,\u201d in the words of G.K. Chesterton, \u201cand that is the only thought that ought to be stopped.\u201d Critical Race Theory stops thought, and so Critical Race Theory must be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>A coherent conservative movement does not embrace \u201csmall\u201d but rather limited government. It pursues justice \u2014 the \u201cend of government,\u201d as Madison reminds us in Federalist 51 \u2014 by giving each person his due. Sometimes that means protecting students from harmful indoctrination. At other times, it means protecting babies from the villains who would do them harm. At still other times, it means protecting private citizens from the medical demands of private companies. When \u201csmall\u201d government cannot meet the demands of justice, we must grow the state \u2014 if only to preserve our freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Montana state legislature passed a bill barring private companies from requiring that their workers receive the coronavirus vaccine as a condition of employment. \u201cUp to now Montana &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896278,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}