For over 100 years we've been told we need "experts" running things. Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and especially the incorrigibly evil son of a preacher, Thomas Woodrow Wilson believed that civil service and government should be run by experts and geniuses because average people are corrupt morons who have trouble putting their …
For over 100 years we've been told we need "experts" running things. Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and especially the incorrigibly evil son of a preacher, Thomas Woodrow Wilson believed that civil service and government should be run by experts and geniuses because average people are corrupt morons who have trouble putting their coffee in a cup. Wilson, a racist whose goal with education was "to make a man as unlike his father as possible," openly said the Constitution needed to be gotten rid of because it didn't fit with his (and Edward Mandel House's) plans to create an administrative state in which it wouldn't matter who was elected because bureaucrats would run everything. That has been one of the biggest goals of the Democrats and Establishment Republicans ever since. They've pretty much achieved their goals: Senators and Representatives seldom do anything of lasting import, unless you count endless blathering on tv important. On the rare occasions actual reformers or statesmen have arrived on the scene, they've been marginalized, assassinated, or assimilated into the Blob. Subversives like Obama are sold to us as reforming statesmen, and the public buys the argument because of their voices, appearance, and alliance with propagandists who call themselves "journalists"; these would-be guarantors of freedom only speak of imperial presidents when someone like Reagan or Trump comes on the scene and threatens the status quo by not following the Establishment's program to the letter.
For over 100 years we've been told we need "experts" running things. Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and especially the incorrigibly evil son of a preacher, Thomas Woodrow Wilson believed that civil service and government should be run by experts and geniuses because average people are corrupt morons who have trouble putting their coffee in a cup. Wilson, a racist whose goal with education was "to make a man as unlike his father as possible," openly said the Constitution needed to be gotten rid of because it didn't fit with his (and Edward Mandel House's) plans to create an administrative state in which it wouldn't matter who was elected because bureaucrats would run everything. That has been one of the biggest goals of the Democrats and Establishment Republicans ever since. They've pretty much achieved their goals: Senators and Representatives seldom do anything of lasting import, unless you count endless blathering on tv important. On the rare occasions actual reformers or statesmen have arrived on the scene, they've been marginalized, assassinated, or assimilated into the Blob. Subversives like Obama are sold to us as reforming statesmen, and the public buys the argument because of their voices, appearance, and alliance with propagandists who call themselves "journalists"; these would-be guarantors of freedom only speak of imperial presidents when someone like Reagan or Trump comes on the scene and threatens the status quo by not following the Establishment's program to the letter.