No government run by an intellectual elite has sufficient knowledge, foresight, and wisdom to make correct decisions for all the rest of us.
Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, Obama’s former consumer protection agency administrator, epitomizes the smarter-than-thou, “caring” liberal-progressive who is demanding, for your own good, the right to run your life. As Bill Clinton reportedly said about cutting income taxes, the problem is that the rest of us would spend the money on the wrong things. As his press secretary said, only government has the power to improve people’s lives.
So, we should just imagine ourselves as inmates in a society-wide prison, where in return for following orders, we are all treated with liberal-progressive equality: equal housing in our cells, equal clothing (i.e., uniforms), equal food, and equal access to the prison library. After all, in Professor Warren’s paradigm, collectivized society created the societal prison and the rest of us, by definition, owe our lives and fortunes to the prison and the sustenance it provides.
George Will exposes the nonsensicality of the Warren paradigm, the liberal-progressive quest to submerge individualism under the flood of socialism.
In the long battle between the English monarch and his subjects, beginning with Magna Carta in 1215 and extending to our 1776 War of Independence, the thrust was to restrain the rulers within a framework of checks and balances that tended toward fairness. One term - arbitrary - was frequently used to characterize unfair exercise of political power.
Political structural safeguards against arbitrariness were essential aspects of our Constitution. Increasingly since the 1930s New Deal, under socialist Franklin Roosevelt, those safeguards have been destroyed. Ever more power has been taken from states and local governments and usurped by the Federal government.
That process has reached new depths of degradation in the Obama administration. Treatment of bondholders in Chrysler and GM was of the same order as arbitrary seizures of money and property by monarchs, from King John to James II. The effective take-over of Wall Street by Federal bureaucrats is more of the same.
Professor Warren wants to exert arbitrary power over our everyday lives, with Obamacare and consumerism as the bludgeons to batter us into submission.
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