It is misleading to direct attention to "big government" as the culprit in this affair. Big government merely provides the weapons which a tyrant only too eagerly aims and shoots.
The malicious spirit which animated the IRS in attempting to rig an election by intimidating conservative political groups is not the spirit of "big government," it is rather the tyrannical state of mind of the Saul Alinsky ethos personified by one of his disciples, Barak Hussein Obama.
Yes, the problem is big government but we might have gone on for another generation or two without the IRS terrorizing conservatives under a reasonable set of men and women in charge of the government. Can you imagine a Bush administration setting out to disenfranchise Democrats? That requires a mindset which is essentially tyrannical, one which despises the rule of law and the Constitution upon which it is based. One which thinks the entire system is unfair and must be junked in favor of a utopia which those in power will soon fashion with the help of the IRS.
Obama and his henchmen despise us, despise the Constitution, despise the rule of law, and regard the institutions of coercion within the government to be tools to be exploited to advance their utopia. It is not that they are without a conscience, it is that they believe they are doing good as they do evil-but this has been ever the rationalization of the tyrant.
Let us not blame the gun and so by inadvertence excuse the criminal who pulls the trigger, let us indict and convict the real criminal too.
Good analysis! Big government has always been a problem just on the basis of its size alone, which makes it expensive, bumbling, inefficient. However, as you say, it can be weaponized by the right person, and Obama, who seems to have passed through his legal education unscathed by learning but was an eager student of Alinsky, especially the bit about taking over institutions, was that person.
I wish I felt that this would be the demise of big government, but I think there’s such a superstructure of government built up around American society that it would be hard to get rid of it all at once, at least. The only thing I hope might come out of this would be the dissolution of the IRS as it is now by the change to a new form of tax collection: that is, a Fair Tax or a Flat Tax. Obviously, an agency would still be in charge of doing this, but it wouldn’t have the levels of intrusiveness and discretion that would permit it to be used as a political weapon or, at any rate, not as effectively.
Which brings us back to the dictator. One thing I am certain of is that we are at a crucial point, right here and right now. If the government is not purged of Obama’s personnel and influences, with a public rejection (through jail sentences) of this model of government, then we’re finished. Even if he doesn’t go so far as to proclaim himself president for life, there will only be one party in the future and we will become nothing but servants of the state, particularly after Islamic law is imposed. There’s still time to stop this from happening, but not much.