The COVID-19 train wreck unfolded before their eyes. One senseless government diktat followed another. Close your business. Keep your kids home from school. Stay out of the park. Wear a mask to go into the store. Take a vaccine to keep your job. These edicts destroyed lives. They caused vaccine injuries and deaths, cancelled jobs and education, and tore families apart. They eviscerated civil liberties. Society unravelled.
Most of them have lived their lives under the nanny state - or the "Administrative state," as it is more formally known.
The administrative state excelled beyond its wildest dreams.
Unlike COVID, which transformed society with a fury, the administrative state triumphed slowly over many decades.
The same simplistic reasoning applies to the administrative state.
Since the administrative state rests on its discretion to decide the public good, it alone can define what public good means.
State officials don't have to show that their policies achieved public good, since the meaning of public good is up to them.
People who believe that the administrative state is different have been hoodwinked.
https://brownstone.org/articles/anatomy-of-the-administrative-state/
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