Tyranny through Complexity

American Thinker ^ | 3 Jul, 2022 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is roughly 270 words long. The Declaration of Independence is around 1,320 words. Those two documents alone prove the power of brevity. (Whenever I find that I am unable to write what I'm trying to say within the Lincoln-Jefferson word limit, I chuck it in the trashcan because I've most likely buried my intended message under parasitic weeds.) The whole U.S. Constitution, the shortest in the world, has only 4,400 words. Yet every two-year Congress since WWII has enacted 4-6 million words of new law. A wise man once told me that if a law can't be written in a single sentence, it has no business restricting Americans' liberty. Over 200 million words of imposed law since the last Great War have no doubt stolen a good deal of Americans' natural rights and liberties.

Do we believe the modern American legislature's verbiage is a necessary requirement for fulfilling the promises outlined in our founding documents? Or is it more likely that Congress learned long ago that it could bury monumental power grabs underneath an untamed jungle of distracting weeds and has been writing new weeds into law ever since?

Tyranny comes in many forms, yet one of its subtlest is manufactured complexity. Esoteric language + complicated bureaucracy = citizen compliance. If no-one understands the law or how the monetary system works or whether some agency exercising government power is legitimate, then a great deal of corruption and crime can be committed without the public's objection. Complexity is the favorite poison of those with power.

Consider how the government's tyranny through complexity makes answering even the simplest questions quite difficult:

(1) Have you broken any laws today? (2) How many departments or agencies exert power over you? (3) Is saving money wise? (4) What does the Constitution..

[joma89]

I wrote that the democrat party is the enemy. Please do not draw a conclusion that this statement, by default, means that I think the republican party is somehow our friend.