Posted on 06/08/2021 6:35:08 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The brainchild of progressive President Woodrow Wilson, the modern administrative state is rooted in a preference for rule by an enlightened clerisy.
“Trust the experts.”
Then came COVID-19. The virus dealt an irreparable blow to the credibility of our ruling class and its appeal to its own authority as a coterie of highly credentialed and capable experts.
No single person exemplifies this fall more than Dr. Anthony Fauci .
As Steve Deace and Todd Erzen detail in their new book, “Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History,” Fauci has repeatedly contradicted himself throughout the pandemic .
FOIA requests revealed a February 2020 Fauci e-mail explaining that store-bought face masks are “really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected, rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection.” He added that the “typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material.”
Yet a month after Fauci’s unearthed mask e-mail, Americans were required, with Fauci’s blessing, to wear masks pretty much every time they left their homes — and mask-skeptical posts were censored by Big Tech.
Then there is the Democratic Party’s and media’s inexplicable 180-degree turn on the plausibility of the Wuhan lab-leak theory.
American politics is in the throes of a populist moment. That moment is characterized by widespread distrust of elites and an ever-widening chasm between the ruling class’ prerogatives and the wishes of the American people. As we finally begin to emerge from COVID-19, that chasm will only grow wider. The ruling class has sullied itself one time too many.
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Most are a bunch of poseurs, more concerned with "image" than anything else.
I’ve been calling this phenomenon ‘expertitis’ for many years. The worst thing about so-called experts is they usually have more credentials than ability. As soon as someone uses their credentials for their individual credibility, I know they are poseurs. . .otherwise, they would allow their abilities to speak for themselves.
Twilight implies an end date. I think the end date will take longer than we hope. The useful idiot masses are still able to vote (or, more accurately, have their vote counted).
It’s the bureaucratic state, administrative state if you will; People specializing in minuscule areas of expertise, like Fauci, trying to be public policymakers. The difference between “expert” and “Policymaker” is vast and wide, as we have seen.
Fauci may actually be a capable microbe hunter in a white lab coat; but he has no clue at all about the ramifications of the misuse of the power of the government in the name of “science.” As with his failure in dealing with AIDS a generation ago, he is like the mad hatter— dirties up one set of dishes and just moves on to the next.
“ The Ruling Class may be in power, but they are far from “elite”.
Kakistocracy.
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