The Impotence of Government

Yes, this too could be your Driver's License Photo

I worked as a CDL examiner for about a year in Oregon. It was an education on how oppressive Government, at any level can be. I saw rules followed simply to irritate or give a sense of power to the person behind the counter, versus taking care of the person who paid my salary. Don't get me wrong, I worked with really decent, good people in my office, but they were human.

It was most apparent in my training class in Salem. The instructor there told us if the final score on the test was within 5 points of passing, to deduct another 5 points just to make sure the test taker didn't push back on the score. Having a hatred of bad referees, and an overly active sense of fair play, I pushed back and told the instructor there was no way I was going to do this.

She told me I would, or that there'd be consequences for me. My time at the VA left me jaded to ominous threats, so I responded where in the regulations this directive was to be found, and that unless it was codified, the score the test taker earned was the score they'd be given. She left arrogantly, telling me that she'd get it in writing and insinuating that I could tow the line or be let go during the training if I didn't acquiesce. Having been looking for a job when I found that one, I resigned myself to my fate. She returned after lunch and without looking at anyone said that we were all free to give any score the test taker earned to them.

So why spend all this time relating this story under the picture of a lady with a colander on her head? I'm glad you asked. I have a good friend that recommended I read Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and after reading it I realized how good the Left has become at forcing everyone else to play by the Rules, even when it seems ridiculous, case in point, after granting religious exemption to head garb in DMV photos, the Pastafarians sued for legal standing to do the same thing.

More and more folks on the right/libertarian/liberty factions are beginning to embrace this rebellion through rule following. I don't think my friends on the left understand what they've started in binding up multiple arenas of government. You're seeing the fruit of this with police officers who understand they can't be fired for writing reports, but can be fired for interacting with minorities, so to feed their families they're getting more and more content to use the rules to protect themselves, even as cities burn.

Combine the hamstringing of police (versus the call for a demilitarization, they're two very different things) with shrinking budgets do to growing costs and fading revenues and I think we're going to see more and more disparity in police outcomes (ie crime stats) in SJW cities (New York New Orleans, Baltimore, Chicago, etc), versus traditionally strong law and order cities (think Red South, mid-West, and intermountain West). This will lead to a hastening of productive citizens from those cities, decreased tax base, more crime, until you have more and more Detroit like failures of those cities.

Anytime you see your city, county, municipality, or even the Feds doing something silly, don't get mad, make them get into the weeds doing what their regulations say...