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Deconstruction of the Administrative State : Origin and Result (Original Post)
Marcuse
Apr 2020
OP
big gov't is a newspeak term used to get people to buy into totalitarian centralized gov't
Thomas Hurt
Apr 2020
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wryter2000
(46,032 posts)1. Yup
And he put such a pleasant face on it people still worship him.
Wounded Bear
(58,629 posts)2. One logically follows the other...
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)3. big gov't is a newspeak term used to get people to buy into totalitarian centralized gov't
Getting rid of the admin state, concentrates power to fewer apparatchiks and the Dear Leader.
Getting rid of the admin allows the oligarchs to better control the influence and the corruption to their benefit.
DBoon
(22,353 posts)4. Written rules and processes mean accountability
and checks and balances.
Their absence creates a chaotic dictatorship. Nazi Germany was actually chaotic, corrupt and inefficient - the opposite of the ruthless efficiency of myth.