To: nathanbedford
Such an elite group has to be driven by a Napoleonic self-confidence that it can conquer where everyone else has failed. Such confidence could certainly be a positive thing, if directed properly...
8 posted on
03/27/2017 12:03:40 AM PDT by
sargon
("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
To: sargon
Or properly overseen.
This can be a benign force for a limited period of time until it becomes, like all bureaucracies, dug in and self-aggrandizing.
Or,
it can become like the whiz kids that surrounded Franklin Roosevelt and did generations worth of mischief.
9 posted on
03/27/2017 12:10:12 AM PDT by
nathanbedford
(attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
To: sargon; nathanbedford
“Such confidence could certainly be a positive thing, if directed properly...”
If they confidently decided to decouple opioids from the popular and much less harmful drug marijuana, by ending federal laws against the latter, that would certainly be a positive thing. I’m not holding my breath.
66 posted on
03/27/2017 5:35:07 AM PDT by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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