Interventionism

The current Catholic controversy regarding certain interventions emanating from Obamacare highlights the problem with statism. For an interventionist government to succeed, it can't back down every time a faction of the public is angry at an intervention. At some point, interventionist government has to stand against the pushback. In most cases of government intervention the interventions are subtle and implemented over a period of time, so that not enough people are affected to cause widespread pushback.

Then it comes to something like control of healthcare which statists have wanted for a long, long time in America. There were bound to be groups who think the interventions into healthcare are too much, but so far there have been exceptions made to help ease the anger. Now, Obamacare has run up against the Catholic Church. I'm not going to get into the details of the controversy. My point is that we're just beginning to see the end stage of statism as the system consolidates control. There will be bigger interventions and bigger battles. The American people are going to fully realize what statism leads to. Americans have been assured up until now that America is different and although government has to intervene and coerce to ensure fairness and justice, our leaders will never misuse power.

When power is not limited, those who are not in power lose freedom, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but they always lose freedom. It's the nature of the State to grow in power unless limited by a constitution and the diligence of the people. The State, at some point in its development, becomes anti-social and exists for the sake of power. Those who seize power and benefit from power don't want to give it up, so they find ways to make power permanent. The fastest way is to make people dependent on an intervening government, so that the people can't survive without the government. The interventionist government gains complete control, then it protects all arms of the State.

The question is whether we've gone too far, become too much like sheep to fight back. It will continue until we say no and mean it.