Obtuse GOP Politicians Are Pretending The Courts Will Save Us
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Obtuse GOP Politicians Are Pretending The Courts Will Save Us
There is no evidence of any kind that Supreme Court rulings will stop government from continuing to get much bigger. This kind of make-believe is fatal. At some point it simply becomes a refusal to see where we are.
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The story of the last century is the explosive growth of an overlapping set of technocratic managerial status groups that presume to have the authority to direct society. As Woodrow Wilson put it, speaking as more or less the founding father of the technocracy, “I let everything alone that you can show me is not itself moving in the wrong direction, but I am not going to let those things alone that I see are going downhill.” They alone decide on the right or wrong direction. Society is a bus that they drive.
As they think they run America, and should, they also feel pretty sure that they hate it. As the historian Christopher Lasch wrote in his book The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, “The new elites are in revolt against ‘Middle America,’ as they imagine it: a nation technologically backward, politically reactionary, repressive in its sexual morality, middlebrow in its tastes, smug and complacent, dull and dowdy.” His conclusion to that........
