“Fear” is the ultimate foundation of our society.
You pay your taxes due to “fear” of the consequences.
You obey the government and the “law” due to fear of the consequences (at the end of a “gun”).
You do just about any expected behavior in our society with the ultimate root of “fear” of the consequences as the primary motivator.
There are some limited exceptions, but those are up to the altruistic behaviors of individuals due to several reasons, but those pale in comparison to the true motivations of behavior in our society, and the root cause of those behaviors is “FEAR”.
It’s an “inconvenient fact”, but it is a fact. Once this truism is actually understood by citizens, the first steps to limiting the capacity of their elected government to inflict “fear” upon those who elect them is both comprehended and taken into account when establishing and perpetuating said government, along with the reciprocating principle that those who are elected to govern MUST do so under the “fear” of the consequences of betraying the trust and “power” that has been bestowed upon them by those who have chosen them to govern.
This isn’t a complex reality to comprehend. It has simply been our own shortcomings that have allowed our government to believe they have nothing to fear from those who elect them (not to mention those who opposed them at election tine), and thus those who ascend to a government “job” no longer “fear” the populace as a whole and choose to do what they want without “fear” of any retribution for the most part.
This must change or we have nobody to blame but ourselves for our eventual slavery to our own elected government.
And this is the problem, by being able to manipulate fear, a government can get as tyrannous as it wishes.
The fear of God is the only way to cut through this Gordian knot.
Agree. But most of the bureaucrats in these rogue agencies aren’t even elected. They do what they want to do; making rules and regulations, and they have no fear of being fired. They do so no matter who is in elected office.