PrintJune 22, 2010
Barack and the Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is liberalism's strong right arm. Liberalism would not exist as it does today without it -- it would have nothing of the reach or durability that it now possesses.Government bureaucracy forms a kind of shadow universe, in which each human activity has its department or agency to oversee and manipulate it -- a massive structure established over decades, with no real purpose but to perpetuate itselfLiberals view this as approximating a state of utopia, a more perfect universe, with nothing existing without its bureaucratic shadow, with bureaucracy controlling everything and bureaucracy itself under liberal control. This is a goal they've been working toward for generations, each liberal administration (and many of the "conservative" ones as well) adding to the growing structure, and in no case subtracting anything. Liberalism and bureaucracy act to bulwark each other, bureaucracy operating as a toolkit for liberal programs while liberalism provides funding and...(Read Full Article)
