When historians reflect upon the Age of Obama, they’ll
note this was the era of federal bureaucrats.
They’ll state this president flaunted the administrative state like no
other before; that it became self-evident that all three branches established
and reaffirmed a fourth arm of government, and gave it the power to create and
adjudicate its own rules, in fact circumventing the legislative process
outlined in our Constitution.
This was cleverly done by politicians, who didn’t
want to vote on controversial subjects, and have to face the wrath of their
constituents. What better way to
implement laws that advance statism than a nameless and faceless bureaucrat,
while at the same time, giving a politician a platform to rail against policies
he secretively advocates. One would say
this form of government is un-American.
As a matter of fact it is!
President Woodrow Wilson was a great advocate for
the administrative state. He was a proud
elitist who resented the “little people” who criticized his genius. Wilson had a disdain for the Declaration of
Independence and our Constitution. He
believed in Darwinian principles of societal evolution. Progress became a dog whistle for a powerful
centralized government and its legion of specialized bureaucrats. This model of scientific administration Wilson
admired was crafted by Europeans:
But where has this science grown up? Surely not
on this side of the sea….American writers have hitherto taken no very important
part in the advancement of this science. It has found its doctors in Europe. It
is not of our making; it is a foreign science, speaking very little of the
language of English or American principles….It has been developed by French and
German professors.
Nazi
Germany demonstrated how efficient and innovative a motivated government
bureaucrat can be. I watched a
documentary on how the German people were kept in the dark on Hitler’s “Final
Solution.” Politicians didn’t want to get
their hands dirty when it came to murder.
Even the Nazis were subject to public opinion. So, with trial and error, they
surreptitiously expelled Germanic Jews to concentration camps, all the while
assuring their neighbors they were being sent to a better place.
And the role of the judiciary
It was the administrative state that collected
data, confiscated property, transported, housed, and eventually murdered
millions of Jews. You will be hard
pressed to find Adolf Hitler’s signature affixed to any document authorizing or
acknowledging the “Final Solution.” Bureaucrats
shielded the Fuehrer as much as possible for plausible deniability.
The administrative
state is designed to give plausible deniability to ambitious and deceitful
politicians. So far, under the Obama
presidency, over 21,000 regulations have been implemented with an additional
2,375 scheduled for the year 2015. And,
of course, all this is being done with the clap and thunder of congressional
outrage and grandstanding by our elected representatives.
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