Americans want something done, and they want someone who will know how to change the course we're on because he sees and understand the problems and brings the acumen to solve them. Americans are tired of waiting, they want action and they want it now.
Then they are wanting the wrong thing and having the wrong conversation. We do not need things "done"; we need
scores of things
undone. Whenever government gives us "action" we can feel the shaft sliding right up our
assholes until we can taste the tip in the back of our throats.
A dissertation on the Constitution will not bring back jobs, beat the hell out of ISIS or secure US borders.
A dissertation, no; but, obesiance to the Constitution's prescriptions against the unlimited State, yes. We will not
"bring back" or create new jobs until or unless the federal government is willing to a) reduce to a drastic extreme
the regulatory state and b) comport itself according to the strict interpretation of, among other things, Article I,
Section 8 of the Constitution in general and the Commerce Clause in particular,
the abuses of which have done the lion's share to fashion the climate from which American business and jobs were
driven in the first place. Not to mention, c) the government must be fashioned that will get the hell out and
staythe hell out of matters to which it is neither competent nor Constitutionally sanctioned to engage.
Donald Trump does speak of free trade--often and extensively. His point is you cannot have "free" trade unless it is "smart" trade. Americans know the country is being ripped off. TPP is the latest installment of a globalist agenda. Americans are saying "no more!". Americans are voting for smart trade with American interests protected and the man who knows what it will take to get it done.
Donaldus Minimus isn't that man. None of the current White House aspirants really are, but since he is the
subject at hand we speak here of him. He speaks of measures a) that have few if any teeth beyond his lip service; and, b)
hint at returning to the sort of policies and ignorances---adjusted to today's climate and in today's language---
that produced among other things the first Great Depression. If and when he speaks of influencing Congress to
construe and act upon Article I, Section 8 reasonably, of vetoing any legislation that violates Article I, Section 8,
and of prodding the government out of areas where it is incompetent to act (which would, I concede, amount
to asking him to destroy the monster he had no small part in suckling in the first place---a concession I notice
a good number of his current supporters have not made and probably will not make, never mind that those
I have in mind were, once upon a time, staunch to the point of hysteria supporters of George W. Bush and
his Republican Congress---the ones who gave you a rampup of big government than even Droopy Drawers
Clinton of His Excellency Al-Hashish Field Marshmallow Dr. Barack Obama Dada ever masturbated over),
then he would have something to say to me. Until or unless he does, he has nothing of substance to
say.
It is time to cease hoping and waiting for rulers who will resolve the myriad contradictions among federal
programs and policies and---more importantly---end the damage from the perverse incentives government offers
for people to scorn self-reliance. No one is going to ride in on a white horse and wave a magic wand over our
political system . . .
The issue is not how much a politician cares but how much power he seeks. The power a politician acquires for
government will survive long after his photo opportunities have been forgotten. People must realise that the
government in recent years has become far more an enemy to their rights and liberty. People must recognise
that government is now the most dangerous predator.
The vast majority of government . . . can neither be reinvented nor reformed. If Americans want good govern-
ment, hundreds of failed government programs must be abolished and legions of laws that turn government
into a public nuisance must be repealed. All other "reforms" will merely prolong the abuse of the American
people.
---James Bovard, from the conclusion of "feeling your pain": The Explosion and Abuse of Government
Power in the Clinton-Gore Years. And only too relevant, still, today.
