It’s the “Satan Strategy” per C.S. Lewis in “The Screwtape Letters””
The most important lie of Satan is to convince us he doesn’t exist.
If you’re unaware of history and the threat that government control poses on your freedom, you’re more likely to give up that freedom for the lie of “security”.
“America lacked an effective state bureaucracy until the Progressive reforms of the early 20th century”
Actually, Alexander Hamilton created quite an effective bureaucracy and is still in use today.
I would argue that the decay is that “progressive” part.
The decay begins when govt gets into the business of your day to day life, beginning with charity.
To understand how government’s work/operate, you must first understand how people work/operate. The government is operated by people. The machines are programmed by people. And people are just bags of emotions walking around.
Political Decay is the result of Cultural Decay.
No...Increased political decay, IS the end of “learning from” history...
The author put this together backwards...