Posted on 11/14/2019 5:33:08 AM PST by relictele
This can NOT be repeated enough.
Well stop trying to follow the baton and just observe that however things go, day after day, it is the same monkeys in the same trees taunting and flinging their feces at American citizens.
Excellent, well-written, logical piece!
Thanks for posting.
“Nice speech. Now what?”
The core problem is that the federal bureacracy has morphed into a largely unaccountable fourth branch of government. The entire concept of regulations written and made legally enforceable by someone who was not elected by anyone violated republican norms. Then when you add in things like civil service and whistleblower protections, those folks are no longer employed at the will of the President.
They're a major locus of power in the federal government, and completely unelected. That is a travesty.
We’ve gone from the banality of evil to the evil of banality.
banality of weasel ?
Lots to think about in your essay.
Along the same lines: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2012/02/hhs-and-soft-totalitarianism
The experts get to dictate our lives because, well, they went to expert school and learned from other experts that they themselves are experts and we’re not and we need to shut the hell up and do what they tell us to.
Kent and Taylor are the paradigm of the above.
The evil of Nazi Germany is the same as the evil of leftardism, because deep down they both are based on and have the same fundamental principles: emotionalism, altruism, collectivism, totalitarian statism, and socialism. They are variants of the same paradigm that has existed in Western culture since Plato.
huh?
Furshlugginer Bube mit wilden Augen.
A pleasure to read.
Thank you for your observations.
Many years ago, I struggled through Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism”. Most difficult book I ever read. Sentence structure alone was complex.
I read that book to come to understand how the Jews in Europe allowed themselves to be caught up in the Holocaust. It helped me to understand some of it, but I never fully grasped it.
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My view?
Totalitarianism in all forms is Evil. Progressive, Socialist, Marxist, Fascist, Communist, Dictator, Islamist, “Bureaucrap”.. All Evil!
“Furshlugginer”
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=furshlugginer
An aracane adjective used as an expletive in the earliest issues of Mad magazine (e.g. 1950’s) - comparable to “garshdarned” (see examples). However, maybe it’s true that it was also used to mean ‘asshat’ later on, as claimed above.) Possibly a parody of some German or Yiddish word, I suspect. Correct spelling may actually be ‘furshluggenner’.
Hannah Arendt was a leftist who projected authoritarianism onto the political Right and despised the Working Class. She twisted everything.
Huh “huh”?
I’m just wondering about your previous post to me. What are you trying to tell me?
Oh. I guess it’s just a general remark and not particularly intended for you. But the general point is that trying to follow the action on any one issue in the swamp is going to confuse you no end because the whole point of the process at this point in mindless process to obfuscate what some people are doing while paying everyone else to do more or less nothing. It’s what goes on in DC and it’s what the legions of feds and contractors are paid to do. Mindless nothing.
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