Technocrats In Control

[PoliticalChic]

Today....from the history of Progressives, to today's headlines, in six parts.



1. Here is the offer of Progressivism:

You can live a comfortable life, better than you could in almost any other place in the world....and all you must do to avail yourself of this offer is to give control of most decisions to experts, technocrats and bureaucrats.
Many would jump at such an offer!

2. Tocqueville put it this way:
Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.”
It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”



3. This is a description of Progressivism, or Liberalism: your life run by “an immense, tutelary power, ...experts, technocrats and bureaucrats."
After all...what would it cost you?

This:
"...the central theme is still an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life., albeit at the loss of what had hitherfore been accepted as ‘inalienable human rights.’"
Goldberg, "Liberal Fascism."




4. The offer was explained to you, as children, when men were men, and America was the home of the brave, self-reliant, independent individuals. You read the story of "The Wolf and the Dog.

A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by. "Ah, Cousin," said the Dog. "I knew how it would be; your irregular life will soon be the ruin of you. Why do you not work steadily as I do, and get your food regularly given to you?"
"I would have no objection," said the Wolf, "if I could only get a place."

"I will easily arrange that for you," said the Dog; "come with me to my master and you shall share my work."
So the Wolf and the Dog went towards the town together. On the way there the Wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of the Dog's neck was very much worn away, so he asked him how that had come about.

"Oh, it is nothing," said the Dog. "That is only the place where the collar is put on at night to keep me chained up; it chafes a bit, but one soon gets used to it."
"Is that all?" said the Wolf. "Then good-bye to you, Master Dog."

Better starve free than be a fat slave."




What happened to you?
When did you agree to simply being a cog in the big societal wheel....a Democrat???

 

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Part II....how it began.


5. The Progressives began the push for a society run by unelected technocrats and experts in the 19th century....an era when many elites earned their education in Germany, Bismarck's Germany, the birthplace of the 'Welfare State."
" Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Germany (in office 1871–90), developed the modern welfare state by building on a tradition of welfare programs in Prussia and Saxony that had begun as early as in the 1840s. The measures that Bismarck introduced – old-age pensions, accident insurance, and medical care – formed the basis of the modern European welfare state. His paternalistic programs..." Welfare state - Wikipedia

But, of course, this requires the coercion of a totalist government, a forced collectivism.

"...the central theme is still an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life., albeit at the loss of what had hitherfore been accepted as ‘inalienable human rights.’"
Goldberg, "Liberal Fascism."



What rights must one give up? Individualism....the very essence of American exceptionlism.
The Germans have a history of embracing authoritarian rule. As the German philosopher Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest” (Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany).

 

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Part III.....Bringing it home.



6. Teddy Roosevelt provided an early dose of the venom.

"After being graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Theodore entered Columbia Law School in the fall of 1880 and married Alice Hathaway Lee on his 22nd birthday that October. While a law student, he took courses with John W. Burgess. An admirer of all things German, especially the philosopher G. F. W. Hegel, Burgess rejected the Anglo–American social compact theory of government." Theodore Roosevelt: Progressive Crusader | The Heritage Foundation



Teddy, no lover of the Constitution, paved the way for Progressive/Democrat/Racist Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was one of only two professional intellectuals to become President, the other being Obama, and each did his best to destroy the America of our Founders.



Wilson wrote in “The State,” 1889, that "Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand." His writings attack the Constitution, and the ideas of natural and individual rights. Along with Frank J. Goodnow, they pioneered the concept of the ‘administrative state,’ which separated the administration of government from the limitations of constitutional government. American Progressivism




In short, governance by experts, bureaucrats, and technocrats....with none of this nonsense about 'unalienable rights.'

 

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Part IV.....The Administrative State

7. The new Administrative State
1) politicians were to be elected
2) technocrats, civil servants, bureaucrats, experts draft the regulations.

“…the agencies comprising the bureaucracy reside within the executive branch of our national government, but their powers transcend the traditional boundaries of executive power to include both legislative and judicial functions, and these powers are often exercised in a manner that is largely independent of presidential control and altogether independent of political control.” http://www.heritage.org/research/thought/fp16.cfm

Is there some aspect of government that is "largely independent of presidential control and altogether independent of political control” that has been in the center of news stories since before the election?

As is that element working to sabotage this President?



From the earliest of Progressive administrations, we find the belief that government bureaucrats, and technocrats, and agencies know better than those involved in the myriad voluntary transactions as to how much each should have.

“Progressives looked to insulate administrators not only from the chief executive, but from politics altogether. It is the Progressives' desire to free bureaucratic agencies from the confines of politics and the law that allows us to trace the origins of the administrative state to their political thought. The idea of separating politics and administration--of grounding a significant portion of government not on the basis of popular consent but on expertise--was a fundamental aim of American Progressivism and explains the Progressives' fierce assault on the Founders' separation-of-powers constitutionalism.” The Birth of the Administrative State: Where It Came From and What It Means for Limited Government | The Heritage Foundation



The assumption about these experts, bureaucrats, and technocrats is that they are good people....the very best of people....who wish only to do their jobs for the benefit of all, of America.

See the problem? Progressives never understood human nature...still don't. Without the Founder's view of checks on human greed for power, we're left with....."the Deep State."



Liberal actividst Glenn Greenwald- a real Liberal in the original sense of the term- has created that new term for these experts, bureaucrats, and technocrats who are careerists, but who accrue undeserved power...The Deep State.

I'll get to that next.

 

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Part V....The Deep State


8. Glenn Greenwald [The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer] names those far-from 'really good people' who make their livelihoods by accruing power and manipulating our government as 'The Deep State."


Characteristic of human nature, government careerists gain power.....and secrets.
And use them for their own advancement....proving the fallacy in the Progressive's Administrative State.


"Dwight Eisenhower:...we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. ... This is the faction that is now engaged in open warfare against the duly elected and already widely disliked president-elect, Donald Trump. They are using classic Cold War dirty tactics and the defining ingredients of what has until recently been denounced as “Fake News.”


Their most valuable instrument is the U.S. media, much of which reflexively reveres, serves, believes, and sides with hidden intelligence officials.....

Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss, as well as a systemic collapse of their party, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing — eager — to embrace any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry, and damaging those behaviors might be..... cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive.


[Nothing could stop the] Democratic operatives and prominent media figures from treating these totally unverified and unvetted allegations as grave revelations."


The embedded government careerists.....the revenge-seeking Democrats......the media.
The Deep State.

 

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Part VI....Democrats winding up servants to their 'servants.'



9. Let's end the Progressives' view of simply apolitical technocrats, striving to do their job with no personal benefit.


"....THE CIA, with unprecedented clarity, overtly threw its weight behind Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and sought to defeat Donald Trump. In August, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell announced his endorsement of Clinton in the New York Times and claimed that “Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” The CIA and NSA director under George W. Bush, Gen. Michael Hayden, also endorsed Clinton...



It is not hard to understand why the CIA preferred Clinton over Trump. Clinton was critical of Obama for restraining the CIA’s proxy war in Syria and was eager to expand that war, while Trump denounced it. Clinton clearly wanted a harder line than Obama took against the CIA’s long-standing foes in Moscow, while Trump wanted improved relations and greater cooperation. In general, Clinton defended and intended to extend the decadeslong international military order on which the CIA and Pentagon’s preeminence depends, while Trump — through a still-uncertain mix of instability and extremist conviction — posed a threat to it.



....craving Deep State rule is exactly what prominent Democratic operatives and media figures are doing. Any doubt about that is now dispelled. Just last week, Chuck Schumer issued a warning to Trump, telling Rachel Maddow that Trump was being “really dumb” by challenging the unelected intelligence community because of all the ways they possess to destroy those who dare to stand up to them..."
The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer




Sooo....what will happen when Democrats regain political control....and wish to 'control' their erstwhile Deep State allies, when Democrats need the Constitution?



The Democrats don't support a government guided by the Constitution.....and, in advancing the Deep State, they may have a tiger by the tail.

 

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