I’ve always been fascinated by the way in which politicians and other assorted idealistic opportunists have managed to foster tyranny upon us. It takes a certain level of arrogance, a certain lack of integrity, and an overall contempt for the ideas of others in order to effectively pull it off. It is quite astounding the heights of arrogance and the murky depths that men and women will go in order to gain a moderate amount of power over our lives.
When Rohm Emmanuel said to never waste a good crisis, he was actually saying out loud what just about everyone within the rim of insanity was thinking when this crisis hit. I don’t believe he said it out of stupidity, but out of arrogance because he knew that no one would be able to comprehend the length and breadth of his wickedness (and, yes, pride is a sin), nor would anyone with any relevance would have called him on it.
The Left in this country has been the largest and most consistent group throughout our nation’s history with regards to these matters. Our Founding Fathers had to deal with these crackpots and were wise enough to see right through them. Of course, back then the popular rhetoric was against big government, unlike today. Somewhere along the way, our nation’s culture shifted (the second War of Independence aka the Civil War was probably the starting point). These days the question is always “What can the government do?” rather than “Should the government even be doing this?”
Tracing any problem in any economic sector always points to some government ‘solution’ in one form or another. Government programs never die, their focus may shift, but they never really go away. If I ever wanted job security, I’d go to work for the Federal government (at least, security in the sense that I’d have to really screw up, like commit a class-A felony, to get fired). This is one of the reasons why I don’t work for the Federal government and why I will do my best to not work for them in any capacity as long as I can help it. There’s no sense of danger there in the job market and therefore no motivation to excel. And when you don’t excel at your vocation, you may as well lift your head up high and blow your brains out (unless you’re religious, in which case the cause of your suicide will be long and agonizing despair).
While government is not the source of all human misery, it certainly has its fair share of blame. As a Christian (strange, huh?), a skeptic (a contradiction, I know), and a realist (in other words, a pessimist), I know that human nature is what it is. There is no band-aid fix for humanity that humanity itself can provide. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t remove the salt on your wounds either and clean out the infections.
Any government state is always a haven for the rulers of this world. Those rulers are not the men with faces and cute speeches about some lofty idea that is trendy at the moment. No, the true rulers of this world are the demonic hoards that seek to separate us from our true callings in life. And whether you believe in Satan or not, that is irrelevant. View as an abstract idea that was given a personality, but however you see it, humanity has a serious and flawed nature that no amount of government can solve.
The purpose of the government is to kill people and break things. While such a thing may be necessary in certain situations, having it intervene in everything is a recipe for death and destruction, not progress. Especially in a democratic or republican form of government where the most corruptible of men will always have the opportunity to play king for a day. As long as we continue to accept the premise that we need government, we may as well accept that we will need mass graves, pointless wars, and tyrants in our own lives.
The Founding Fathers fought to win independence for much less evils than those perpetrated upon us (read the full transcript of the Declaration of Independence if you don’t believe me).
What good is progress in our civilization, any kind of progress, if we are not free to enjoy it as we should?
These are the things I see as I gaze into the rim of insanity that most people call Washington, D.C. It is a wonder that I am able to maintain my own sanity at all consider everything that happens there.