Monday, February 13, 2012

Sort of political Monday: Flirting with Godwin

Yes, I'm going to go there but it isn't as bad as it it's going to sound at the start. Okay?

It's really important to remember that Stalin got where he did by being a very good bureaucrat.

And now the bit where I reassure you a bit: No, I'm not saying that bureaucrats are all little Stalins. No, they are more like aristocrats. Boring, uninteresting aristocrats who manage to be depressingly dull even when they are corrupt and they are as corrupt as any other class of people, which is to say they are corrupt a lot.

But the take away is this: Whether aristocrat or bureaucrat they're all the same—just some 'crat trying to run your life.

That's the really disturbing thing (and what opens the doors for the little Stalins), bureaucrats hate your freedom because it is a threat to their power. And the way they lure you in is by promising to take a away your freedom to fail. They won't pitch it that way of course. They'll tell you they are protecting you from the uncertainty and unfairness of life. And, as soon as you believe them, they'll have you hooked.

No matter how big, no matter how deadening, now matter how expensive a bureaucracy gets, you can be sure that the bureaucrat class will create another crisis to justify yet more bureaucracy. And then they'll hire (a probably unsuspecting) Clint Eastwood to say

... but after those trails, we all rallied around what was right and acted as one ...
Don't believe it folks. The best kind of government and the best kind of country is the one in which you are free to not pull together. That doesn't mean that everyone gets to do what they want. That just isn't possible, but any time someone starts telling us we need to "act as one" as a nation, you can be sure their real agenda is to take away your freedom.

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