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!”