I know I keep harping on this but one of the main tenets of Progressivism is to bring about the Administrative State – a place in time where expert technocrats “guide” the rest of us through our lives. These are unelected, unaccountable, and most likely, unapproachable bureaucrats working in a centralized government situation sitting down to make sure that we all know our place in order to have “an ordered and efficient” government (‘the country as machine and we all know our Borg cog place in it”). Obama, more than any other President since FDR, has embraced and declared (“fundamentally transform the United States”) this to be his philosophy.
Expert technocrats – only experts will staff governments. That is the hallmark claim: “we know it all” – and as we have lately seen, it does have multiple uses. However, it is expected that the Administrative State, if it is to organize and run Society, is even “better” than Society? That’s why it was a Mtn Dew snort out the nose moment when I read this from David Axelrod, uber-confidant to Progressive Prez Obama, on why these mega-scandals are all happening at once and why it isn’t Obama’s fault:
“Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast,”
Boggled, I was. Here it was – an uber-Progressive saying that “Government is too big to manage”. What an outstanding gaffe that undercuts the entire raison d’etre for Progressivism. In one sentence, Axlerod:
- says that the brightest President not only is NOT the Smartest President EVAH (peace be upon him) (see here, too)
- validates what Conservatives have been saying for years; Government, as Reagan (a Progressive’s arch-enemy) once said, is the problem
If something is too vast, it is too big to manage and certainly too big to manage properly. And if the Smartest President EVAH (peace be upon him) can’t manage it well, well, who could? Well, the Founders “have an app for that!”
Progressive categorize the Founders as EVIL people, so anything they did (re: the Constitution) is tainted. Anyways, what did those EVIL white old men know about today’s world – such a dusty tome. They’re right – our Founders had no clue what this Country would be in 250 years – but they HAD figured out what human nature was by studying the previous 5,000 years of history (yeah – one reason why Progressives hate it when you bring up history) and were geniuses when encoding that into a governing framework to compartmentalize things so as to make it harder for the more evil side of human nature to become tyrannical. And one of them was to enumerate what the Feds were to be able to do – and not. And the system of strict Federalism that was to provide for State sovereignty that would push governance closer to the people (obviating the need for a Leviathan Federal Government which the Founders feared – and now we know why).
Yet, over the last 120 years, Progressives have incrementally undone those protections and have made the Feds the size it is now – and Axlerod just said “Oopsies!”. We have heard many times these last 5 years of Obama’s reign that “America is ungovernable“; now the truth has come out:
It is NOT that America is ungovernable. Rather it is that the Government (at the Federal level) has become unmanageable.
and finally, a Progressive has admitted to it. What Axlerod just admitted to is that Progressivism is a failed philosophy. We saw the symptoms with the scandals with the out of control Dept of Justice and Internal Revenue Service – and Axlerod just pinpointed the disease – a too big government. If you cannot management it, it cannot function or work well. And if that is the promise that Progressives have held on to and held out to the people as THE way to Heaven on Earth, well, that bubble just burst.
And I’m not sure most people have caught this?
The Question that the rest of us must ask ourselves is whether or not to let them reach the final Administrative State anyways (which will mean the death of our Constitutional Republic by democratic means). They will make the same argument that Socialists (and the Monarchists before them): that the right people have not been there to implement it right.
Well, they’ve only had 5,000 of recorded history and hundreds (if not thousands) of attempts to get it right – haven’t seen one success story yet.
No, our Founder’s Government never was, or is, or ever will be perfect for unlike Progressives who believe they can “perfect the rest of us to be perfect”, we Conservatives know we all are fallen – so how can a government composed of the fallen be perfect? Harry Reid was wrong – Government is not inherently good but it is not inherently bad either. It is, however, the people in it that can turn a Government from good to bad, as we have seen this past week’s reveals of three major scandals.
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”
– President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09
Actually, we now know the answer to “is too big” and “but whether it works” – and the answer is “yes it is” and “no, it is not”.
(H/T: The Corner)
