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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArticle: Why does Steve Bannon want to destroy the administrative state? Article date Feb 24th
Bannon and Trump are the biggest threats. Bannon is the puppet master pulling rump's strings.
This is an all right assault against Liberal ideas.
http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/steve-bannon-rolls-out-his-far-right-nationalist-agenda/
snip of article: This article is rather bone chilling.
There were many points in their presentation which should arouse interest, such as Priebus excitement that the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch would cement Trump policies in place for a long time to come: Were not talking about a change over a four-year period. Were talking about a change of potentially 40 years of law.
But it was Bannons discussion of the key principles shaping policy development in the Trump government that were most illuminating. Describing what he called the three buckets of administration priorities, Bannon reinforced the focus on concepts like sovereignty, national rebirth, and authority that are key parts of the economic nationalist agenda.
Perhaps his most revealing lines, however, were those concerned with something he kept referring to as the administrative state. He said that all of Trumps cabinet appointments were selected for a reason
deconstruction of the administrative state.
What exactly is the administrative state and why are ideologues like Bannon so determined to see it destroyed?
eniwetok
(1,629 posts)One of the biggest influences on the Trump Junta is a real far right crackpot... someone who believes nuclear war might be good for us... and who wants to shrink government to the size of a pinhead. He is how Bannon got connected to Trump.
bdamomma
(63,837 posts)will keep for reading.
eniwetok
(1,629 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Powerful white men seek to destroy for the sole purpose of doing it...
procon
(15,805 posts)Doesn't the Libertarian view embrace anarchism as a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies run by wealthy oligarchs? After they destroy the government, the norms of society will collapse, and Republicans must think that some kind of magic fairy dust will make the 1-percenters transform the resulting chaos into a free and just society.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)They want an autocracy that allow oligarchs to do whatever they want with no constraints by nation-states.
It's a drive to return to early medieval politics.
procon
(15,805 posts)when Feudalism collapsed under the weight of its own tyranny. History books show that philosophy didn't work out too well for the wealthy aristocrats in their high castles when the vassals finally objected, and it won't work now either.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)and maintaining the pretense of democracy.
Russia has been described as having a Managed Democracy.
It has voting and representative bodies but they are managed.
So it seems to me there is a balance- one one side we have several hundred years of enlightened thought and democratic principles in action while on the other we have religion, tv and the internet warping minds and our perception of reality.
I do hope popular culture steps into the breach soon. Snoop Dog did a video showing Trump as a clown. It'd be good to see much more.