What the Founding Fathers said about the Deep State
The Declaration of Independence's list of grievances applies aptly to today's bureaucracy.
What they said isn’t as familiar as the document’s ringing declaration about how “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” and so forth. Rather, it’s buried in the less read and long list of “injuries and usurpations” that the tyrant, King George III, had inflicted on the American colonies,
The Founders didn’t intend it to be a prediction. Nonetheless, it rings true more two centuries later:
[King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
“Swarms of officers” is an apt description of the bureaucrats that have written mountains of regulations that “harass” and “eat out [the people’s] substance” of today’s Americans.
No doubt that Thomas Jefferson and other signers of the Declaration could never conceive of 4 million bureaucrats forming a veritable fourth branch of government. At the time, there were altogether only 2.5 million Americans. Imagine their shock and disappointment.
Also in the list of injuries was this accusation:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Today, it is two presidents and vast numbers of politicians who also seem to be unable to follow the law apparently thinking that are above it: Just a two examples:
Donald Trump thought he could somehow change the constitutionally prescribed method for electing the president.
Joe Biden’s freelance southern border policies have damaged America’s sovereignty
One more history lesson the woke don’t know or ignore.