Big Government's "Problem" Racket

Understanding the Rackets

If government is the problem, why would government want to solve it?  Think about it.

Since Marxist-leaning John Dewey's educational reforms took hold in America, our citizens have been conditioned to turn to government when difficulties arise.  It was a long transition from the instinctive habit of individualism and self-reliance that held on stubbornly from pioneer times through the late 50's.  Vestiges of America's independent spirit remain (as seen in the Tea Party, Tenth Amendment initiatives and scattered patriot groups sandwiched between the coasts), but recent social, political and economic developments in America suggest that self-reliance is now more relic that viable force.  We turn to government.



What happens then?  When citizens coalesce around a problem, say economic collapse, they petition Washington to take whatever remedial action is within their power.  What happens then?  Washington mobilizes, bureaucracies expand and power accrues to those who are seen to deal with the issue.  If legislation survives internecine battles, its effects will most likely exacerbate the very economic problems it was designed to fix.  After enough repetitions with every conceivable disruption, who believes government has incentives to solve any problem?

Republicans, that's who.  They persist in the untenable belief that the big-government Left (and too many members of their own party) deals in good faith.  That they abide by the old, silly norms of civil society.  Such as speaking the truth, refraining from theft, not bearing false witness or cheating. [1]   The naivete of Republicans is truly astonishing.  They grant the benefit of doubt when no doubt exists, and they bend in the name of comity, fully expecting reciprocity that is not forthcoming.  They accede to the premises of their enemies, [2] and wonder why they don't win; they trade principles for votes, and they are left with neither.

It comes to this.  Problems, confusion, chaos and turbulence are the stock-in-trade, fondest ally and longevity guarantor of big government.  Like the race-baiting industry, government is vested in tumult and turmoil; it is their reason for being.  Their font of golden eggs.  While it is often said that government doesn't make anything, that is untrue.  There exists no bigger manufacturer of designer crises.

If every crisis keeps some citizens off balance, an inexhaustible abundance of them undermines -- not only the confidence -- but the political viability of an entire population.  Problems are carefully tailored to divide persons and groups and to tear away the fabric of traditional American civil society.  As a political tactic, the sewing of division has its provenance in the Marxist strategic playbook.  Though long and widely applied, it occasionally surfaces in media, as in the cases of Cloward/Piven and Saul Alinsky.  A current example serves to illustrate -- more clearly than most, in my view -- how things work.

Does anyone who is willing to step back from the din of state media and entertainment TV really believe that "gay marriage" has any legitimate place in the hierarchy of urgent and serious problems facing the United States?  That it is a civil right?  At some level among some number of about 3% of the population who is homosexual, this may be a matter of real concern.  But their grievances can be worked around in law without redefining the a bedrock civil institution [3] concerned primarily with the security and well-being of children.  Here is a matter -- trivial in the grand scheme of things -- that has been calculated, targeted and artificially elevated in the public consciousness for three purposes: to demoralize, divide, debauch and thus weaken American society.

To expect the Left to cooperate in solving problems is utter folly.  The problem racket is simply to good to walk away from.



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1.  Here, I think of Gingrich's American Solutions and find myself wondering if he really persists in believing that Democrats and government, generally, has any interest in "solutions".  It is a false premise when dealing with the increasingly monolithic Marxist Left.
2.  I use the word advisedly.  The Marxists are at war with America (have been for over a century), but it remains, for the most part, undeclared.  Republicans debate in the expectation of a satisfactory outcome; the Left breaks bones.  Republicans are wedded to the norms of civil society (not a bad thing), innocently believing that the same is true of their opponents.  It is neither necessary nor desirable to forsake those norms to man-up and play hardball.  Crickets...
3.  The family, even in its parlous current state, is the strongest defense against the state.  It cannot be allowed to survive as a vital political force.