One of the hallmarks of the current system we live under is that it is assumed that people cannot manage their own lives anymore without the guidance (control) of experts in government and industry.\u00a0 The computerized systems we must negotiate to satisfy the requirements of daily life are arcane to the point of impenetrability.\u00a0 And they\u2019re constantly patched and endlessly updated.\u00a0 At every turn we need to employ the \u201chelp\u201d of experts and agents of the government and quasi-official agencies or just corporate customer service.\u00a0 Some of these in the corporate ranks are, to be fair, quite good.\u00a0 You might buy a phone or a service contract from a vendor and they might do excellent work providing customer service for their products or services.<\/p>\n
But for every good example there are a dozen where customer service is provided by someone in Mumbai with English language skills that would test the patience of Job.\u00a0 And sometimes the results of consulting these representatives are worse than useless.\u00a0 Rather than alleviate some initial problem they sink you deeper in a morass of problems.\u00a0 And going through these sometimes hours-long ordeals saps your energy and raises your stress levels through the roof.<\/p>\n
And this is just trying to get the service on a device working.\u00a0 Imagine what it\u2019s like when the IRS gets its claws into you.\u00a0 Then we\u2019re talking about terror.\u00a0 And taking it all the way to infinity, imagine dealing with the FBI when they take a battering ram to your front door at 3 a.m. prior to dragging you off to the gulag.\u00a0 I guess you could describe the whole system as assault by expert.\u00a0 We are no longer allowed to live our lives in a simple reasonable way.\u00a0 We have each become just a cog in the machine.\u00a0 And every cog must be cut into the precise size and shape needed to conform to the requirements of the machine.<\/p>\n
It might be bearable if it wasn\u2019t apparent that the stress, embarrassment and pain inflicted in the machining of the cogs is obviously a feature of the process and not a bug.\u00a0 Just as in the Soviet system, control is maintained through fear and confusion.\u00a0 Orwell described this system in his novel \u201c1984\u201d and Solzhenitsyn confirmed its reality and provided details in his memoir \u201cGulag Archipelago.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, what\u2019s my point?\u00a0 Well, just this.\u00a0 Winning elections is not going to gain back the country we had.\u00a0 Whoever is president is going to have to demolish the Deep State.\u00a0 And that means eliminating thousands and thousands of bureaucrats whose jobs are meant to bludgeon us into submission, literally cause death by a thousand paper cuts.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve read that eliminating those bureaucrats can\u2019t be done.\u00a0 That all those bureaucrats\u2019 jobs are protected by federal law.\u00a0 To that I say, \u201cSo what?\u201d\u00a0 Surely the President can transfer all of these torturers into completely harmless parts of their departments.\u00a0 If need be, he can create sections where the offending individuals can be employed stuffing envelopes with letters that won\u2019t be mailed.\u00a0 He can keep them doing that until they\u2019re forced into retirement by extreme old age.<\/p>\n
But by whatever means he comes up with to do it, that\u2019s what must be done.\u00a0 All those FBI agents who currently spend their days enticing disgruntled Americans into joining phony militias with phony insurrections can be reassigned to a division where all their time is spent ticketing double parked limousines outside the State Department.\u00a0 All of the IRS agents can be repurposed as latrine inspectors for the National Parks Service.\u00a0 All of the bureaucrats currently hassling utilities companies about the carbon dioxide emissions of their combustion plants can be safely transferred to Denali National Park in Alaska where they can monitor the temperature of the grizzly bears with a rectal thermometer.\u00a0 Or they can try to at least once.<\/p>\n
All kidding aside.\u00a0 Whoever wants to save this country will have to dismantle wide swaths of the managerial state just to start regaining control of the federal government.\u00a0 There\u2019s no other way.\u00a0 Think about that Mr. Trump and anyone else who thinks he wants the job.\u00a0 And then think about how you can get it done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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