Being a conservative form of confrontation politics, the ENDA backlash would demand not revolutionary statism but reactionary rollback. The activism arrayed against ENDA could be linked to reconsideration of Title VII s premises, spinning off into massive diminishment of illegitimate federal power and renewal of self-government. Given the calls for centrist governance in the wake of 2000 s electoral tumult, ENDA s enactment is quite possible as a means of pacifying an insurgent Democratic Party. In fact, ENDA already has significant Republican support, congressionally and otherwise. While the antidiscrimination apparatus has already taken hold, ENDA s passage would reinforce its corruption and tyranny.
Political mobilization occurs when government overestimates the tolerance of a citizenry.
ENDA is such an overestimation. Hopefully its enactment won t be necessary to mobilize liberty s defenders.