“It was not until the 1930s New Deal that Federal peacetime spending first exploded and has never looked back since.”
FDR was Obama’s “guide post” in the political art of “never let a crisis go to waste”. The programs the Marxists obtained under FDR THEY did not need the depression or WWII as excuses for; but FDR politically did, and he used them as just that - excuses for PERMANENT agencies, not temporary measures for temporary conditions. He, like Wilson was a true progressive to whom a unitary national state with a supreme administrative state is their utopia - rule by the experts. “Elections” are merely for giving different political actors the reward of making new appointments, as needed, to the permanent and real government - the administrative state.
You can see exactly what I am talking about in the actions and language of the Democrats all during the “Russian collusion” mess, the “climate change” agenda, and many other events. The Democrats speak of “defending ‘democracy’ “ but that which they specifically are trying to defend in each case is the permanent government of the administrative state.
As far as I am personally concerned the true elements of “the U.S. government” are ONLY Congress, the President, and federal appointed judges. EVERYONE else is JUST an “employee of” that government, NOT “the government” and them and their agencies are always expendable without ANY harm to this republic or any “democracy”.
The permanent government has become occupied by rotating classes of persons who cycle back and forth between the private sector, academia and posts in the permanent government. THEY think of themselves as “the government” and Congress and Presidents are merely temporary figures that MUST listen to them. Obama and them were in sync. Trump is trying as hard as he can to not be in sync with them.
Today Democrats are still called the "Democratic Party", but in the 19th century they were known as "The Democracy".
So when Democrats tell us, for example, that "Trump threatens our Democracy", what they're really talking about is "The Democracy", meaning their own party.
Which of course is true -- with luck we'll continue to see ever rising unemployment among The Democracy politicians.
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