That Uncle Joe is an empty suit with no brain is visible for all to see. Even then, some, like one of my historian colleagues, continued to make excuses for him (“he’s just tired,” he said). But even the Left finally had to admit that Joe had to go.
But Joe Biden wasn’t our first empty suit in the White House. Indeed, I would submit that the Office of the President of the United States has been held by an empty suit for up to 100 years.
Some have cited Woodrow Wilson as being such an empty suit after his stroke, allowing close advisors like “Colonel” Edward Mandel House, along with Wilson’s wife, to run the country. But that’s just the surface. In reality, the United States has been an administrative authoritarian system since at least World War I, and by the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” the administrative apparatus entered its stride.
But this apparatus goes much deeper and further than many understand. In 1841, a New York state legislator named Clinton Roosevelt… yes, a kinsman of the other Roosevelts… published an obscure book called The Science of Government Founded on Natural Law. While a reprint is available on Amazon, it is missing a critical item… the two large foldout charts in the back of the original edition. These charts were diagrams as to how the United States should be transformed, including organizations for every facet of the economy. One of these charts is reproduced for the photo to this article.
In essence, Clinton Roosevelt was arguing for what can best be described as Italian fascism, the complete organization of the economy under the auspices of government control and regulation. And the beneficiaries of this control were select big businesses, who would then “manage” the unwashed masses to perform the labor chosen by the elite. In this system, the President of the United States was more of a figurehead than a true executive, with the nation run mostly by the administrative apparatus, which continued to grow and expand. Even a so-called “champion” of conservativism like Ronald Reagan functioned within this apparatus. After all, Reagan ran in 1980 on a promise to eliminate the newly formed Department of Education. And what do we have today? The Department of Education… and more. There is evidence that presidents can sway the bureaucracy, but they apparently can do little to curtail it.
In the past, efforts were made to make Presidents appear to be in charge, and the elite was sensitive to accusations that some of them were mediocre (Ford and Carter) or possibly even stupid (Bush II). That was then, and this is now. What we are seeing today is a Neocon elite that has become so brazen that they don’t care if the President has obvious dementia or is clearly as dumb as a concrete block. It’s the proverbial issue of mind over matter… they don’t mind, because the person in the Oval Office doesn’t matter.
And this is why they hate Donald Trump. It’s not because he’s the most conservative politician… he isn’t. Rather, it’s because Trump is a strong executive. He could be a hardcore leftist and the Neocon elite would still hate him, because Trump believes he should actually function as an executive, exercising real power….
…that he should actually function as the President of the United States.
Russ Rodgers has several books published on Amazon.
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