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The Real Agents of Change

Democrats like to promote themselves as change agents.  Agents of change.  And this makes them hip.  Modern.  Progressive.  But nothing could be further from the truth.

Democrats promote the politicization of everything and by extension the bureaucratization of everything.  To them government is the best arbiter of progress.  But the process of making government the dispatcher of innovation has exactly the opposite effect.  It creates barriers to entry, reduces choices, dries up resources or locks them away, and leaves a few cumbersome behemoths who plod along beside big government, benefiting from their shared monopoly on “progress.”

But progress is risky and expensive, and behemoths and big governments suck up a lot of resources just to stay big and behemoth-like.  If you already have a captive customer base, there’s no incentive to innovate.  No reason to do more than rearrange the deck chairs on the ‘SS Progress’ as it trudges towards a collision with the iceberg of history.

A big, centrally planned government isn’t even a modern idea–it’s the oldest idea.  The one we tried to escape.  The one whose absence made America a first world global power and eventually the only super-power. But Democrats have been dragging us back toward the planets least successful form of governance with a rabid obsession, ignoring the repeated failures of the past, and hiding from the inevitable lassitude that their super-state is destined for.

And they are close to completing that journey.  But it will not be change unless by change you mean changing from innovation and success to a economic anemia destined to cripple the nation and thrust tens of millions into subsistence and misery at the indifferent hands of an uncaring beast called Government.

Real change only comes from an open marketplace where failure and success rub elbows every day.  Where discovering 1000 ways not to make a light bulb is the only way to make one that works.  Where you are guaranteed to miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.  Where most of those shots will miss but a few might be nothing but net.  And where the needs of the many don’t just outweigh the needs of the one but where the ones with the agility to  fulfill those every changing needs can hire the many and empower them all with a speed that no government could begin to embrace.

Big government isn’t even all that agile at makeing lame excuses to hide its own bumbling incompetence.

There is nothing in government that works all that well, and very little that works at all–not for any purpose that serves the people.  The bigger you make it the easier it is to waste resources and then hide that waste; to hide incompetence, fraud, malfeasance.

A big controlling government is where a chief executive who is supposed to be responsible for how an entire branch of government runs can whistle past the political career-graveyard time and time again because the same party that thinks it is the agent of change is also the party that will make excuses for failure even it costs you trillions of dollars or even just a few human lives.  (I mean really, what difference could that possibly make?)   A party whose excuse for the failure of government is the enormous size of that government, made large by their own hands, hands that insist that making it even larger might just be the solution.

Conservatives, Libertarians, and Republicans are the real agents of change.  They support individual success, private ownership, ease of entry, rule of law, contract rights, competition–the more the better–and privately funded innovation that invests in things people need instead of robbing taxpayer to fund ideological sacred cows that despite their lush green taxpayer-funded diets still drop dead in the field.  They believe in non-profits that do things other than hide their political activities; groups that use volunteers to help people help themselves instead of paid activists who help people agitate to help themselves to the fruits of other peoples labors by intimidation and force disguised as democracy.

Democrats hate change.  The last thing any Democrat wants is real change because when the Founders created the American experiment, that was change like no one had ever seen before in history.  A change that empowered the people before the state.  A change that made those who governed responsible to the law and the citizens.  And ever since it happened the professional left has been working overtime to change it back.

That’s not progrss.  It is regress.  Democrats want government to have power before the people.  They want to take us backwards.

When that process is complete, freedom will mean what the government says it means.  Liberty will be limited by 2000 page laws no one reads or understands.  Speech will no longer be free. Your right to assemble, to associate, to speak, will be micro-managed down until you are too fearful to act for fear of finding yourself guilty of a crime.  And that is where they want you.  Quiet, obedient.  In your place.  Beneath them.  Beneath the government.

That is where we are headed.

That is the you they’ve been waiting for.

 

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