Personally, I'd be in favor of a War on the Public Sector across that filthy and corrupt spectrum: not just elected officials but perhaps even more fervently against the entrenched bureaucratic caste and all recipients of public funding for any damn thing. There seems to be something about allowing government to be one's meal ticket (though I personally would not know firsthand) that makes anyone indulging in it unable to resist the temptations of unaccountable power and behind-the-scenes advantage-seeking. What I wish is that people outside this fetid wasteland of human rejects would remember that to 'serve' in government basically amounts to a confession of an inability to get by in life by any other, honest, means. I dream of the day when anyone on public payroll, whether directly or by means of grants and programmatic positioning, are regarded by the general population as the third-class citizens they are, that they would be made constantly to remember that they are but mere servants, with no appreciable merit as human beings other than to keep their heads down and mouths shut and meticulously obey the laws they are sworn to serve. Why does no one get it that the very purpose of law is not to restrain the people, but rather to severely and specifically limit the powers of government? Not until we remember that, and make them remember it every minute whether they like it or not, will there ever be an end to official abuse. Until then we deserve little better.
Personally, I'd be in favor of a War on the Public Sector across that filthy and corrupt spectrum: not just elected officials but perhaps even more fervently against the entrenched bureaucratic caste and all recipients of public funding for any damn thing. There seems to be something about allowing government to be one's meal ticket (though I personally would not know firsthand) that makes anyone indulging in it unable to resist the temptations of unaccountable power and behind-the-scenes advantage-seeking. What I wish is that people outside this fetid wasteland of human rejects would remember that to 'serve' in government basically amounts to a confession of an inability to get by in life by any other, honest, means. I dream of the day when anyone on public payroll, whether directly or by means of grants and programmatic positioning, are regarded by the general population as the third-class citizens they are, that they would be made constantly to remember that they are but mere servants, with no appreciable merit as human beings other than to keep their heads down and mouths shut and meticulously obey the laws they are sworn to serve. Why does no one get it that the very purpose of law is not to restrain the people, but rather to severely and specifically limit the powers of government? Not until we remember that, and make them remember it every minute whether they like it or not, will there ever be an end to official abuse. Until then we deserve little better.