no source of authority beyond a boot or a rifle, is what they are after. because they can persuade no one, but they know how to stomp.
@Phil@freeatlantis.com@interfluidity That is the only source of authority our government has had for over 100 years.
@Phil Our society has had many sources of authority, even when associated with government with a great deal of independence, like the independent agencies the Supreme Court and the Executive are collaborating to destroy. People went to CDCs website to learned about illnesses, and physicians took their advice, not because of any boot. Universities provided a scaffolding upon which tentatively authoritative consensus was widely adopted with no boot. All that is being destroyed.
@interfluidity
You are out of your effen mind. Those independent agencies are the apex of abuse of authority; there is now way for the people to supervise them. They're a constitutional abomination and their emergence is EXACTLY when the BOOT became the source of government power.They robbed the people of sovereignty.
Only an ignorant fool would advocate for independent agencies because they CAN'T be both accountable and independent.
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@interfluidity
I don't know where you've been, but those agencies destroyed any legitimacy they had during the covid fiasco.
There is something very seriously wrong with your thinking.
People like you are dangerous tools of out of control government and are destroying the very foundations of liberty in the US system.
A curse on you.
@Phil You, my friend, grew up in the freest, strongest, society in all of history and are supporting a rampage to tear it all apart because CDC was poorly run under the guy you support and you’re annoyed by taxes and free people could shame and exclude you when they didn’t like stuff you say. I wish no curse on you, only just a little bit of sense.
@interfluidity
I was born in a free country, but thanks to fools like you, my kids were not.
@Phil my kid was born in a country made unfree by plutocrats in 2013. i am no fan of the Obama administration, which saved the oligarchs and let regular people burn. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/11/30/obama-was-the-most-destructive-political-figure-of-my-lifetime/index.html
now my son lives in a country being burned to the ground by plutocrats who think they are geniuses, and people like you who see the sometimes very real warts of the administrative state but fail to realize its prerequisite role to a modern, free society.
Administration may be a prerequisite to a modern society, but and Administrative state that is unaccountable to the people and steels power from them is not.
All power will eventually be abused, you can see this happening know, if you had eyes to see. But alas, "there are none so blind as those that will not see"
@Phil i spend much if my life thinking and writing about democracy, proposing reforms. but the administrative state we had was among the most transparent and accountable in all of history. it’s main flaw — a very serious flaw — was capture by monied interests. even as they burn it all down, that problem is exacerbated rather than remedied. freedom is high overdraft fees i guess.
@interfluidity sadly you have come to very errant conclusions. You say it was transparent, but I dont see evidence for that. It only appears true if you accept propaganda as truth. I have investigated, along with several other people, news stories from the last 10 years, relating to government. 85% are designed to deceive. Its been falsely transparent and the credulous draw conclusions from it.