Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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2009-07-15 17:48:41

“Wrong, Dave! Ultimately, politics in a democracy is very much about process — note that I said “in a democracy.””

Which, if logic and reason are your guides, proves that government is designed to be conservative. It is designed to slow things down so that the frivolous and the fashionable is subjected to rigorous scrutiny in the hope that idiocy and usurpation[s] are driven out of policy.

So once Reid, Peloski, and 0bama have expropriated and looted the business and the personal, the gummit won’t do anything constructive on anyone’s account, except to preserve the political class through the institution of nepotism and a Gestapo that is necessary to enforce the socialist state.

So Churchill was right when he said that “a socialist state cannot be constructed without a gestapo to enforce it.”

And a socialist state enforced by a gestapo will be very “conservative” [as dhimmicrats like to think of it, their standard] by design and will not be interested in change in the least, too busy as it will be with enforcing docile compliance to its iron fisted rule.