Systemic failures, not scandals

The political class characterizes the current systemic failures as "rogues" gone wild, and incompetent low level bosses who didn't properly inform their superiors, and national security actions which were necessary to prevent leakers from putting the nation in danger. Some in media and the political realm might even admit that everyone has something to learn in these teaching moments in order to create a smarter, more effective statist system. There will likely be analyses suggesting that Big Government is necessary in complex, dangerous times, but we have to stop and better organize this "vast" collection of systems.

What will be drowned out is what the IRS and Obama have tried to silence -- voices warning against statist abuses of power. Our government's problems have more to do with power than with size and incompetence. Yes, there is incompetence, and, yes, the size is overbearing, and, yes, individuals have to be held accountable for illegal and unethical actions, but the fundamental problem is our statist system.

Statism opens the door to big-and-incompetent, corruption and all forms of abuses of power. Our incredibly byzantine tax code has been used for social engineering for a long time, so this present abuse of power targeting conservative and libertarian groups is not surprising. Our foreign interventions which have gone far beyond a reasonable response to 9/11 have created justifications for government to spy on phone records of reporters in the name of national security. Benghazi would not have happened if our government didn't manufacture the necessesity of covert operations in Libya, a lawless region in which we shouldn't even have an embassey or a consulate to start with.

These "scandals" are just a continuation of systemic failures in a statist system that's reached a level of power and control in which violations of individual rights will be common occurences. There will really be no rights, not when the State needs something that requires violation of rights and abrogation of Constitutional limits.

America's turning point

I've been writing here for a long time, and most of it has been about exposing the dangers of statism. Statism exists on the Right and the Left. George Bush showed his statist side as he expanded the welfare/warfare state and increased government interventions into the economy. It's safe to say that neither party has represented limited government or free market principles. Republicans have talked about limits on power and economic freedom, but their actions have worked against both.

Although the Republican Party has slowed the expansion of State power, the GOP has ultimately supported the expansion. Now, Progressives are poised to make the final changes which will institutionalize Progressivism and fundamentally transform the political realm in the US. The State will have total control, if it doesn't already, in effect, have total control.

It will be a modern form of totalitarianism, because it will be comprehensive. The State will overtly control with an arrogance that's been partially hidden. I don't presently see resistance strong enough to stop it. The revelation that the IRS has attacked organizations which basically work to promote liberty has not caused appropriate outrage across party lines. It looks like media will minimize the travesty as the work of a few rogue employees. Anyone who believes this will believe anything, and anyone who accepts it and promotes it knowing it's untrue will say or do anything to protect State power. Between immigration reform and Obamacare and Dodd-Frank and EPA regulations, the framework is in place -- now all Progressives have to do is finish the construction. The 2014 elections are critical.

Testing the American people

Progressives in government are testing the American people's ability to govern themselves. Obama was right in his tyranny speech when he said the American experiment of self-governance is being questioned, but it's being questioned by him, not by the voices warning of tyranny.

Media appeared to turn on the administration after the IRS discrimination and AP phone spying stories came out, but now they're once again slowly circling the wagons, protecting Obama. We'll now hear more stories and more analyses of Republican over-reaction and how Obama was not really involved in the IRS and AP scandals. When Benghazi is mentioned, media hacks will roll their eyes, say that the administration has turned over emails, then talk about how Republicans are blocking immigration reform.

I won't be surprised if media turns the corruption around to blame Republicans for trying to destroy Obama, making it completely about a political battle between the GOP and the first black President. In reality, what we're witnessing is Progressivism and Statism in action. Progressives continue to consolidate power, and they're banking on the public zoning out and becoming submissive. These aren't scandals, but rather the normal course of action for progressives in a statist system. Progressives are determined to use interventionist government in ways that offend those remaining who care about the Constitution, and we'll see how many are left who care about the Constitution or even know what it says. Progressives are convinced they have a majority who care more about government action than Constitutional limits.

After a century of Progressive advancements, the public has been trained and softened to the point government can do pretty much whatever it wants to do. Obama's lies will be forgotten, most likely, or just accepted. The State machine will send out their operatives who'll obscure the issues so that enough Americans just let the corruption wash over them because it's too complex to sort out and follow the trails, or because they know that politics is a nasty business. Progressive supporters will say the GOP is so evil that dirty tricks and lies are necessary. Progressives are counting on a majority -- that's all they need, a majority.

We hear this morning on cable news that only 40% or so people care about Benghazi, or something to that effect. This means in media that it's not a problem. As long as they can show polls where the majority is okay with the Progressive direction, then all is well, regardless of how bad the fundamentals of the economy become. The economy is not important to Progressives, because they will use the Fed to keep the country and welfare state going, even if millions are suffering in unemployment. This is what Americans voted for, so I don't see them rejecting it just because "a few rogue" actors at the IRS decided to act stupidly. And the AP story is about spying on media who leaked a story that caused national security problems -- what difference does it make?

Well, maybe you shouldn't reject the voices warning of government tyranny

As if we needed more reasons to warn Americans of tyrannical forces at work.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/15/another-headache-for-the-obamacare-train-wreck-small-business-owners-sue-irs-over-employer-mandate/

Oh, but tryanny is such a harsh word! Yes, yes it is. Small businesses and those losing jobs know just how harsh it is.

So this is how it played out?

IRS leadership was aware that conservative and libertarian groups were being singled out and discriminated against by the IRS for a few years, and the conservative/libertarian groups made numberous complaints about the unfair treatment.

Then, after three years, IRS leadership blindsides the President by publically apologizing for the unfair treatment of conservative groups, admitting they targeted groups with Patriot and Constitution and such in their names. In apologizing, the IRS leadership even lied about the extent of the discrimination.

The President, unaware of any of this, hears about this on tv. If you believe this, contact me and bring your checkbook.