WWJD? (What Would Jefferson Do?)

I want my son’s America to be peaceful, prosperous, and above all, free. Conservatism is the only rational way to achieve those goals. If things continue down the path they are currently on, my son will never know what could have been. Who will stand for our sons and daughters? Personally, I’ve lost hope for peace. If what Hans A. von Spakovsky says is true, then sooner or later, all conservatives will have to make the fateful decision to either knuckle under or resist by whatever means possible – because ANY kind of personal accommodation to the increasing tyranny of liberalism is to effectually surrender to it.

It’s worse than that: Republicans are too stupid to realize that their adversaries hold the levers of power in most institutions outside of government as well. To compound the delusion, both sides of the ideological divide overstate the power of conservative advances when they do happen. America has not been America for a century now, at least not in the governing philosophy that we celebrate. Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were quite clear about the fact that they wanted to abandon the mindset and structure desired by The Founders. Both of these “progressives” expressed annoyance with the inconvenience of Constitutional restrictions (as has our current President), and had said so quite clearly and boldly in writing and in speeches. They were much more honest and open about their dismissal of the “old America” than today’s crop of “liberals.”

No one alive today has lived under anything but big government — at least at the federal level. Sadly, those of us who detest big government pine for one of two things: the smaller version of big government we knew from our younger days (when we had a a high degree of independence and individual freedom), and some semi-mythical past we’ve never actually experienced. We now have, and will get more of, collossal government — a step or two up from the huge government that was growing — get this — while Republicans were in power.

This underlying default state of big government can be compared to the Earth’s crust. The back-and-forth policies of conservative vs. liberal governance is equivalent to the peaks and valleys of the Earth’s surface landscape — never as high or as low as the underlying crust is deep. When Obama supporters like Huffingtonpost celebrated an “end to laisez-faire economics,” it was to laugh. We haven’t had “laissez-faire” economics in over a century. The Reagan years were not conservative years as many on the right think, but merely a couple of speed bumps on the progressivist highway.

Make every federal job at the level of GS-9 or higher exempt from Civil Service protection. The President does not have to fire those people and, in fact, would often be well advised to keep most of them in place in order to keep competent people operating the government. However, people in any sort of management position will serve at the pleasure of the President and can be fired if their opposition to his policies displease him.

Democrats will be happy to go along with this change because, as the White House travel office scandal demonstrated, Democrats have an endless need to place political supporters into government jobs. They will fire competent government professionals who have been life long Democrats in order to replace them with people who worked on the President’s campaign. It is not the job of Republicans to save Democrats from their most self destructive impulses.

A very interesting comment, and maybe even worth thinking about. But why stop at the last eight years? Go back further to learn the effect of so many liberals working overtime to push their perceived agenda. When terrorism began showing up as a regular occurrence, in the early 70’s, it was a new phenomenon in terms of aircraft hijackings, Olympic mass murder, and so on. And, as time wore on, and the liberal presence in the federal bureaucracy began growing, terrorist acts became more widespread, but still the US was relatively untouched except for airplanes and ships. In the 90’s, when the Clintons did everything possible to infest the entire bureaucracy with their lackeys, terrorism in and against the US flowered unchecked. The WTC, USS Cole, embassies in several countries, diplomats murdered, Americans kidnapped. Finally, the influence of the bureaucratic liberals was being felt, and their fondest desires fulfilled.

By 2000, enough people had connected the dots that a concerted effort of true Americans in the bureaucracy were able to learn of the conspiracy of liberals like Sheesh and a mindset to protect the country began to grow, not because of, but in spite of liberals in the Federal Bureaucracy. Although those like Sheesh – and who knows, maybe even Sheesh – had their great success on 9/11, that marked the beginning of the effort.

Nice try Sheesh.