The Washington Post published a series of articles on the–seemingly out of control–growth of Leviathan.
While the growth began at the beginning of the previous century with the presidency of TR, it skyrocketed at the beginning of this century under Bush II and continues under King B. Hussein Obama. All of this is being done by Republicans and Democrats under the auspices of “national security”. . . of course.
Every patriotic American should read these articles and be very, very afraid.
Thanks to Walter Grinder for sending me the link.
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Agreed: that we must find a way to back out of the administrative state, and return to self-governance. I assume this means re-affirming and cultivating prudence, rather than expertise, as the foundation of the right to govern. Still, when our whole lives implicitly recognize the supremacy of expertise, how do we back away?
I know this is the thousand dollar question, not answerable in a combox, but I'd like to think about how we can gradually disengage ourselves from tarbaby.