The Antidote
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:16 pm
TEXAS: THE ANTIDOTE TO THE SOFT TYRANNY GRIPPING AMERICA
In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville worried that someday America would lose its liberty to “…a network of small complicated rules…” reducing citizens to sheep with the government their “shepherd.” He termed this soft tyranny or despotism.
Today, the federal government has more than 180,000 complicated rules, not all of them small. In 1979, we had “only” 30,000. That was the year the late U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) said, “The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”
In our modern republic, regulations have largely supplanted law. The thought that well-trained technocrats would run government has its origins in the Progressive era and men such as President Woodrow Wilson who saw the Constitution as an archaic document, one that was insufficient to the industrial age. Wilson especially viewed the Constitution’s separation of powers, balancing one branch of government off against the other, as worthy of scorn.
Read the rest of this below...it gets better:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texa ... ng-America
Old Pudfark sez: " This coming fall...is going to be a rout of the Democrat route/root..in this country.. "
Footnote: A few months ago...I would have speculated that the only event that could save the Democratic party? Would be a "war" and that could'a been true? Now, No. The Dem's have slashed the military budget and troops to historic lows, so that ain't gonna happen. If we should survive such an event as "war"? The Dem's are gone....for a long, long time.
In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville worried that someday America would lose its liberty to “…a network of small complicated rules…” reducing citizens to sheep with the government their “shepherd.” He termed this soft tyranny or despotism.
Today, the federal government has more than 180,000 complicated rules, not all of them small. In 1979, we had “only” 30,000. That was the year the late U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) said, “The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”
In our modern republic, regulations have largely supplanted law. The thought that well-trained technocrats would run government has its origins in the Progressive era and men such as President Woodrow Wilson who saw the Constitution as an archaic document, one that was insufficient to the industrial age. Wilson especially viewed the Constitution’s separation of powers, balancing one branch of government off against the other, as worthy of scorn.
Read the rest of this below...it gets better:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texa ... ng-America
Old Pudfark sez: " This coming fall...is going to be a rout of the Democrat route/root..in this country.. "
Footnote: A few months ago...I would have speculated that the only event that could save the Democratic party? Would be a "war" and that could'a been true? Now, No. The Dem's have slashed the military budget and troops to historic lows, so that ain't gonna happen. If we should survive such an event as "war"? The Dem's are gone....for a long, long time.
