Given that many of our neighbors have embraced the confession Reagan warned us about … that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves … and look to our institutions, particularly government, to establish the “common good” from On High that they believe they and their neighbors are incapable of establishing right around them, even we here still need such reminders.

Though Art, I consider those agencies to be only the conduits for the actual, fundamental business of government:

THAT TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men, deriving their JUST powers from the consent of the governed.

Note the emphasis. JUST powers – not just any power a leader, or even the people, deem to be good, but powers that SECURE – not suppress, or override – THESE RIGHTS.

The problems started when our society forgot to keep such respect for the individual as the primary operating principle of our government – and instead put the ever-changing definitions of the “common good” as their prime focus, leading right to the failures you described.

You also mentioned that: They had several years to develop a replacement for ObamaCare and push came to shove they had nothing.

That is because they couldn’t bring themselves to tell the American people the truth that the American people don’t want to hear: the only viable plan is they repeal, WE replace. Because that is the only plan that is compatible with legitimate governance that secures our rights … because it is the only plan where those closest to the problem and have skin in the game call the shots – as opposed to that little, distant elite Reagan mentioned.

And why is that? For a little more than a century, We the People have been led/conditioned to:

> Put elites on pedestals of worship and trust.

> Trust “non-profit” entities over those who admit they’re out to make a HONEST buck.

> Replace thoughtful consideration and sound judgment with more and more “rules”.

> Subordinated our individual rights to “the common good”, as defined by the Pedestaled.

> Been led to willingly consider our own, proximity-informed insight unqualified to challenge the above … and therefore think we should just go with the flow of the status quo.

That is how we sell ourselves short, render ourselves vulnerable to the failures of The Pedestaled … and effectively unplug the distributed intellect of our nation, outside that elite few and their top-down centralized decision-making.

The blind, leading the blinded.

Why can’t our “leaders” – including those claiming to be conservative/libertarian – even make a coherent case to oppose this flawed paradigm, let alone start solving problems instead of creating more? Because our leaders are a reflection of US and can’t think outside the Pandora’s Box of this paradigm any more than we seem to be able to … likely because it is the only paradigm we have all fully experienced in our lifetimes.

If we want to reverse this lemming parade we are on now and make it stick … getting ordinary people to QUESTION the world around them, then build trust in their own insights and NOT delegate their decisions to others – even if that looks like more risk and effort for them – is essential to diminish the power of The Pedestaled and plug all our distributed intellect back in.

Perhaps the first question one needs to ask is … how can the “experts” and “leaders” we put so much trust in, ever know an individual well enough to get the answers right for that individual, from the top down?

Seems like a perfect fit.

Except that “Biden”—consistent with every other authoritarian governing entity—creates “his” own facts.

And when those facts fail, as they must, they create some more, constantly covering up “inconvenient” events/trends/disasters (i.e., prior “facts”) and generally blaming anyone but themselves for the “inconvenience”—i.e., disaster.

It’s the name of the game. THEIR game…

…and it’s tried and true, tried and true…especially with the media in lock-step with the ruling class, blatantly repeating the latter’s lies ad infinitum while censoring any and all “inconvenient truths”; especially with all the power of government and its agencies at the disposal and service of that ruling class, enforcing its will and trampling those who disagree.

Thus the major question, it would seem (in America’s case, but also the world’s) is:
How long can “Biden” continue to create “facts” and insist on their “TRUTH” without facing any meaningful blowback, any resistance, any defiance?

Or put another way: How long can “Biden” continue to create “facts” before “he” (and we all) hit the wall of brutal reality?

Plus a bonus question:
Must authoritarian/totalitarian entities necessarily fall?…(as many of us would like to believe…)

Hollywood, Broadcast Media, and the Psychiatric Profession all have something in common: none of them are disproportionately owned and dominated by Methodists or Mormons or Episcopalians, or Holy Rolling Snake Charmers for that matter. So you’d best take the phone off the hook before the ADL calls.

The old WASP Elites are equally guilty for having sold the baton for a mess of pottage post WWII. No. More guilty.

But hey, It’s the Open Society! Now shut up!

I think we have the makings of a parlor game: “When did all this start?” with playing cards for the various facets of the Great Transformation or New World Order or whatever we want to call it.

When did the entertainment industry go wrong?
Quit showing Westerns on TV and at the movies.

When did the medical establishment go wrong?
Removed certain psychological disorders from their diagnostic manual.

Etc.

Don’t forget the big corporations all getting in line and showing how “Green” they were as another test run of the coming fascism model.

In light of the recent cage match PTA vs DOJ, could we in hindsight see that the foisting of the Earth Day catechism on school children was a test run for the later abominations?

After all, who could be against Saving the Planet when cute little kids did science fair projects and had field days to celebrate.

You just have to put enough sugar around the poison pill and everyone will take it, until you finally try a pill too big and nasty to cover up the taste.
And even then a lot of people swallowed it.

“Politics overwhelmed the science of climate” twenty years before the 90s. It was political right from its Earth Day birthday.

This was one, successful, shift that the Left made in their focus as the Vietnam War became less useful as a recruitment and indoctrination tool.