Ace asks in his headline:
A: Yes. Yes, it most certainly is. Quoting from a Glenn Reynolds piece in the NYP:
We thought of them as do-good organizations set up by people who really care — about the environment, or poor people, or children, or freedom.
We imagined they raise money, help the downtrodden, send out press releases and engage in other private activities to promote the causes they favor.
They’re not government entities, we thought — the very name says that — but a species of private charity whose good intentions deserve the benefit of any doubt.
Perhaps some NGOs do operate in that way.
But as we’ve learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many “non-governmental” entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.
As with just about everything else in or involved with Mordor on the Potomac, as DOGE has so amply demonstrated, it’s all deception, trickery, and deflection, nothing more. NGOs that are in every meaningful sense GOs? The “non” in place strictly to provide a ruse which will hopefully keep the stupes, dupes, and slack-jawed yokels looking in the desired direction? Ho hum, quelle shocked over here.
What needs to happen, but won’t, is an in toto junking of FederalGovCo: dismantle ALL government entities; fire every bureau-rat; dump every existing Department; raze the whole sorry, sordid, edifice right down to bare earth, and start over under Constitutionally-correct guidelines. There is no saving this soppy mess, no “restoring” or “reforming” the US governmental Leviathan. It must be killed, buried, the earth over its grave salted, and replaced entirely—by something a great deal less bloated, self-directing, overbearing, and generally monstrous.
See what I mean when I say “ain’t gonna happen”? I’ll let you calculate the odds for yourself, Dear Reader, but I will certainly not be laying any money down to bet myself. I’ll save it for the one-armed bandits in Vegas, thanks; I’ve seen people actually win on those things. In fact, my late wife covered our trip expenses entire that way—more than just once, in fact.
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