I could just as easily have appended this one to the previous post as an update; they are, after all, very much related. In the end, though, I felt it merits its own, separate place out here on the main stem.
DOGE this
an aristocracy fails in the matrixwatching the same people who cheer led for the creation of millions of regulations via unaccountable rubber stamp and executive fiat act like the removal of same is the end of functional governance is instructive.
i suspect they may even be sincere.
they experience a return to rights and freedom as loss and chaos.
it’s how you can tell they are an entrenched aristocracy of permanent state. it’s also how you can tell that you’re over the target.
pity the poor “federal worker” that most oppressed of americans…
apparently once you’re used to wielding dictatorial control, losing it feels like tyranny. one literally mistakes the freedom of others for the oppression of elites by unjust wreckers and the rollback of that which one rolled out without accountability or just or even legal right seems like some vastly unfair deprival of prerogative.
“how dare you delimit our right to rule!” decries the bureaucratic class and the professors and pundits who cling remora-like to them seeking power, privilege, and prestige. it’s sort of startling in the perfection of the honesty of its overt inversion.
this is, of course, precisely what our framers intended:
government by the consent of the governed not by the vast, unchecked fiat of unelected technocracy.
the monstrous sprawl of these executive agencies and their relentless and pervasive intrusion into all aspects of lives and livelihoods is not just incompatible to their vision, it stands anathema to it.
Don’t it, though; don’t it just.
it seems to me that the interesting part here is that i fully agree with brian about being an end to business as usual. we just disagree about the desirability of such an undertaking.
and so, i put it to you as we frame the key question that seems to define this divide:
“is the federal government as we know it something to defend or something to disassemble?”
because that’s really where the line is going to be drawn in the contention to come.
and for perhaps the first time since the 1930’s, the game is one that can be won because the slanted gameboard has been overturned.
Hey, hey, hey, sounds like another addition to Mike’s Iron Laws: Anything that’s extremely bad for them is extremely good for US.
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if we don’t take this opportunity to dis-assemble the monstrosity created perhaps a century ago (and growing like Topsy ever since), as well as the welfare state with its associated bureaucracy at this point in time, this country’s future as a democratic republic is lost. forever.
Government is the only thing that gets bigger as a result of its failures. The extent of government involvement in citizen’s lives is clearly delineated in the Constitution; anything else is by definition inconsistent with liberty.
America is fortunate to have something to fight for. The rest of us will have to do this the hard way, from square one.
We will do it, however.
Mike in Canada