Power and a side of crazy
George Will hits a home run with this line, today. One of my heroes, Mark McGwire, would be proud.
Faux contrition: Obama blames the public
"Obama's leitmotif is: Washington is disappointing, Washington is annoying, Washington is dysfunctional, Washington is corrupt, verily Washington is toxic -- yet Washington should conscript a substantially larger share of GDP, and Washington should exercise vast new controls over health care, energy, K-12 education, etc. Talk about a divided brain."
It is the matching insanity of the progressive agenda to the parallel incoherence of the neoconservative effort to liberate the world only to dominate it.
Bottom-line: We distrust power as much as everyone else does. Except when we wield it. In which case, why won't everyone get out of our way?
This is the heart of the matter for both the left and the right and almost every person who has ever come across any portion of power. And the reason why the Baron de Montesquieu, James Madison, Lord Acton and all the rest warned us about power and those who wield it.
Because, usually, they can't be trusted. Not any more than anyone else. Which is exactly why they should wield as little power as possible. And why our job should be to check their attempts to assert otherwise.
No matter how thick the bullshit gets.
4 comments:
The whole thing reminds me of a debate round in which someone is winning a kritik, but who is struggling with the substantive debate.
Totally, Carson. That's really how it is, too.
This place stinks. Everyone agrees.
This place stinks, therefore we should trust it to fix every other place. Strange cognitive dissonance.
This place stinks and we might be part of the problem. The elephant in the middle of the room that noone wants to claim.
And the fact that noone wants to claim responsibility is both a consequence of how everyone is behaving and the biggest contributing factor for why this place stinks. Hasn't even occurred to anyone.
Very strange and not so entertaining psychodrama, at this point.
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