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Entry: The Revolution and the Republican Party Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_future_of_the_revolution#18179 Post contents: This a good essay that helps explain the odd disjoint between dollars raised by the Paul Campaign and the disappointing election results themselves. Any notion of a re-birth in Republican Party Philosophy must wait for this bloated Bureaucracy to finally reveal its dangerously consumptive ways. People must come to clearly understand that the amount of money tied up in the Bureaucracy is counter-productive, despite any best intentions that may still exist. The Bureaucracy spends the vast majority of it's funds on perpetuating the bureaucracy, not pursuing the expressed aims of individual departments of the bureaucracy. Petty Bureaucrats have entrenched a petty government. A similar cycle prevails in modern bureaucratic corporatism. What began as an effort at efficiency has resulted in something quite the opposite. Business and Governmental bureaucracies have grown up together and are now inflicting their dysfunctions on a people who have habituated themselves to the idea that the bureaucracies are helping. The elevation of the office of the Executive has virtually destroyed the Separation of Powers and its attending conversation and so the unelected bureaucracy simply seethes and grows....increasing the disparity between money spent upon expressed individual programs and money simply wasted on perpetuating the bureaucracy. If traditional Republican philosophy is to gain any traction , it must reinvigorate the base, the local towns and State Governments that came under attack when the Republican party was just beginning. The Republican Party and its northern industrialists may have won the Civil War, but it lost the Republic, drove it out and now participates in the ongoing charade that is the lapsed Republic. Copperheads and Carpetbaggers have united. The Federalists have created a defacto monarchy. The citizen has no more role to play in this current government than did the colonists of 18th century North America. The Ron Paul effort was a lost cause from the beginning because it had the temerity to attack the beast in his lair. What it did do with spectacular success is identify and focus the problem for a growing number of people and now it is up to those people to build at the local level so that the beast is drawn from his lair, exposed and gutted. The Washington Side Show is the greatest threat to the nation that we have. It needs terrorism to survive and so one can be assured that terrorism it will have. The Paul Campaign clearly exposed the K Street-Media- Establishment hammerlock of Conventional Wisdom (an entrenched counter-intuition) and so now we must simply begin to ignore it , in favor of operating at the local and State Level. It reminds me of a local Town Meeting several years ago during which two of the matters before the public involved some decree by the state that was either unnecessary or came with too many strings attached. One was a State Highway Grant that only the State could identify the stretch of road to be straightened or "improved" while putting the onus of executing imminent domain against several homeowners on the Town. The Town had other more important road work to tackle, that did not include putting residents out of their homes but the State insisted on their own pet project with little local benefit. The other issue involved a state decree that we needed to add another probate judge even though there appeared no pressing need for one. Both State Proposals were considered mandatory and were to be simply rubber stamped. Over a hundred residents showed up and told the State "no" ....in a resounding way.....on both accounts and I have rarely seen a happier group of citizens. Over 10 years later, the road is still un-straightened and we have one probate judge. Life, as it was known, did not come to an end. It could be remarkably easy, ignore the beast until it is forced to expose itself and once exposed, the work will be easy. This is bottoms up work, distinctly unsexy but wildly fulfilling nonetheless. Mr. Paul gave the beast a few good shots but he did it where there was little chance of lasting effect. We need to take his good effort and turn it into the strategic guerilla war at the local level that cannot help but ultimately succeed. Big Government Conservatism vs. Big Government Liberalism is destroying us. Federal "Isolationism" seems somewhat beside the point when States Rights are re-elevated to the status envisioned and promulgated by the Framers. I'll gladly accept the raucous free-for-all that may come with a return to States Rights if that is what it takes to kill this Federal Bureaucratic Dragon that is destroying the lapsed Republic. Sent at: 2008 07 20