George Reisman powerfully comments on The Sorry State of Our Union (HT: Luskin):

... one leading and downright terrifying fact stands out. And that is that the people's elected representives do not know what the government is doing. The government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people. The people's elected representatives are supposed to be in control of that government in the name of the people they represent. That is their job.

The situation we are in, and have been in for several generations, is one in which intelligent, representative government is increasingly impossible, simply because of the sheer size and scope of government. If we want a government that is controlled by our representatives, we need a government that is sufficiently limited in size and scope for it to be humanly possible for our representatives to know and understand what it is doing and what is being suggested that it do.

For the people's representatives to regain control of the government, its size and scope must be radically reduced.

Reisman concludes

Comparisons to train wrecks hardly do justice to what's at stake. It's the wreckage of our country that is waiting to happen, and has been happening. And it's been happening and will continue to happen for the very simple reason that the government of the United States is out of control in the most literal sense. It is out of the control of the American people and their elected representatives. That control must be reestablished.

This is absolutely true, but how? Where is the plan? Who is doing the right thing? How to bring out the libertarian in John Q. Public? Individualism and self-reliance are no longer attitudes of most Americans, there is a general acceptance of governmental control and now nasty fights over who gets to legislate morality.

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