The Administrative State is an epithet to many of my fellow citizens. A great and fervent desire rises when masses of people listen to talking heads1 on Telemedia, or candidates in person. Persons with little personal interest in a particular law or policy will froth forth fervently on the egregious harms presented to personal and business enterprises.
Hah!
I dare you. Nixon signed the Clean Water Act. Gut it. The Clean Air Act, tear it up. The EPA, defund it and lay off all the scientists. Go ahead. The FDA, forget about it.
I’ll wait.
I’ll wait for the class action lawsuits. The attorneys with their subpoenas will come knocking for discovery. I’ll wait.
Oh, I forgot, you replaced all the judges too. My bad.
That’s fine, we can wait. When the pollution rises enough to kill us off, the strong survive, right? That’s great you say. Under your breath, I hear, “Something’s Will.” Many will get sick, even your own loved ones, and I hear, “A better place awaits.”
That new medication, will it really work, or will it just be expensive? Who knows? Is that a side-effect or am I psychosomatic?
Is your food safe? Did you grow it yourself? Good luck with that.
I remember the air pollution in the LA basin. Cali’s economic engines of the northern and southern poles, Silicon Valley and LA were starting to fail. On a clear day without actual clouds, the sun would be an orange ball. The smog would choke you but, California started to change. California lead the nation on air and water quality standards.
I guess we could go back to the before times. Those were the best of times, times when the Cuyahoga caught on fire. If that’s what it takes, so be it!
I remember reading about radium salts and the bone cancer patient a man became by taking the unregulated radioactive compounds that were good for less than nothing. He died painfully in the 1930s. He would have been safer living by Chernobyl.
Except for fairly raw goods, like mined products, food and wood, almost everything else you want comes from a city, and even food and timber are processed in plants that are staffed by city denizens. When cities fail, economic power recedes. Only economic power is real. And maybe ignorance, that might be real too.
Go ahead, gut it. I’ll wait. It’s only the Administrative State.
Well, it’s my anniversary. It’s been one year of writing my own things and putting them up to be seen. Thank you for reading!
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