Codevilla gets it right-as usual. The pernicious results of damaging activities perpetuated by the 'ruling class' have injured this once-free nation-perhaps beyond repair. The problem is age-old: how to get the Ruling Class to actually reduce their own power to allow the rest of us to thrive.This is going to be very difficult to do via the ballot box as the systems in place to perpetuate power make it nearly impossible to put more representative choices in place in sufficient numbers to make a real change. Further, if the entire government were to actually wind up in the hands of a truly representative group (many of whom would quickly decide to cut themselves a slice of the pie, given human nature), the overwhelming numbers of a government bureaucracy populated with wannabe dictators and totalitarians would have to be removed. How do you do that? And how do you get enough of the voting public to see the benefits of dismantling entire departments at federal, state and local levels? Further, what do you do with these hoards of recently-employed, angry former employees who are determined to recreate their jobs and their own personal gravy train?
Angelo Codevilla looks at these issues as only he can. Unfortunately, he is likely preaching to the choir: those who are the problem simply will refuse to see their part in it. Certainly worth the read.
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