The Administrative State is Destroying Our Country

It is clear to me that we are increasingly being governed by an “Administrative State” instead of by our chosen representatives. Indeed, we are more and more becoming a “Regulation Nation” which is a true threat to our Constitutional Republic.

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What do I mean by that? I mean that we are being governed by regulations and rules issued by administrative agencies, instead of being governed by laws duly passed by our elected officials. 

Why does that matter? Because agencies are run by unelected, government bureaucrats who are beholden to nobody but the person who appointed them. They don’t care what the voters think or want or don’t want. They don’t need to care. They don’t need your vote to stay in power. They only have to appease the politician(s) who appointed them. If they just follow the yellow brick road, they will land on the other side of the rainbow.

Ed Morrissey

Yes, and it's deliberate. Woodrow Wilson set us on this path, and FDR accelerated it. Congress has increasingly embraced it as a way to avoid tough votes on public policy and accountability for the results. We need a massive change in direction to return to constitutional self-governance, and it has to start in Congress. 

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