RE: FUKUYAMA ON AMERICAN POLITICAL REGULATORY BURDEN – WE DON”T TRUST GOVT.
Francis,
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Long term student and fan. I understand your argument, but I have a very difficult time comparing the evidence of bureaucratic behavior, especially given the credentialist background of government employees instead of historical public service as a result of demonstrated competency in military, industrial, or business disciplines.

My organization’s work in the law – which still holds up somewhat compared to other organs of government, encounters a deep incompetence outside of a handful at the appellate and supreme levels. I agree with the loss of prestige in government work driving out possible candidates. I agree with the demand for private litigation to correct public problems. Our organization uses the limited vehicles in the common law to do so ourselves.

But I also agree with the tragic failure of our education system beginning with the early sixties attack on it. So I’m not disagreeing with your criticisms. I’m disagreeing that the people in government are capable of the work and responsibility you wish to give them. (I”ve built two of the larger privately held consulting companies, and government work isn’t a problem of regulations so much as – it’s a problem of quality and competency.) The problems DOGE surfaced were not outliers.

Worse, while you compare our government to others, our government of 340M was not designed like ‘other liberal democracies’ with no more than 80M in a concentrated geography. It was designed as a market for the production of commons between the states, given the necessity of a secular empirical government because of the four foundational populations being of different religious fundamentalist populations still reacting to the protestant reformation and the european wars given the parasitism of the church and the state and the nobility.

And just as europe is discovering that unification is impossible for anything but defense, Americans are discovering that their post-civil-war unification, legitimized by early 20th trade and war era insulation from europe’s suicide, is no longer possible. Worse, the success of the left and excessive immigration of costly dependents has amplified that divisiveness.

So I am aware of your biases – each of our generations has them.I’m only ten years younger than you are. And even that difference is noticeable in our generations. And your works on trust and political order were foundational for me and my work. But your faith in liberal democracy doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny.

Why? America goes through a crisis about every eighty years – purging accumulated ‘corruption’ that has become entrenched in a model that no longer serves the national and international circumstances. Trump is the fifth or sixth president to have made such reformations: Trump, Reagan, FDR, Lincoln, and Jackson.

We voted the most competent president in our history (Bush 1) out of office when he could have reordered the world in gentlemanly fashion.

Now we are stuck with stress conditions and Trump’s Shock and Awe urgency.

Affections
Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute