THE RUINING OF AMERICA II

 

In I Samuel 8, the nation of Israel expressed its desire to be like all the other nations even though in their founding documents, God had called them to be separate from the Gentile nations around them: Moses reminds the Israelites of their unique status: "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession, above all the peoples on the face of the earth." 

This text is a destructive blow to multiculturalism which is "the concept that promotes the recognition, inclusion, and celebration of diverse cultural identities within a society. In theory, it encourages tolerance, acceptance, and cultural exchange. However, multiculturalism can pose challenges to social cohesion and national identity.

What the nation wanted was a change in the format of the theocracy: "No more judges. Give us a monarchy." This triggered Samuel to let them know that this was a rejection of God's will for them but if that's what they wanted, so be it, but he then went on to tell them the consequences. In so doing, he declared that there would be a progression in which all human government produces.

In last week's blog we saw the first stage in the progression: the government will bring the people into its service beginning with military service, then into civil service. Thus begins a bureaucracy, a word taken from French and Greek, meaning "rule from a desk." Today, this is what we call, "The Deep State."

Samuel's prediction now moves to the next stage: the government will create jobs such as "captains over fifties and captains over thousands." Included in this job creation will be those who "run before the king's chariots." The government will create the job of the runner whose only function is to call attention to the chariot riding king. This is what a bureaucracy does: it creates useless jobs. 

The problem is that once a bureaucracy begins, dislodging it is like trying to remove a face from Mt. Rushmore with a noodle. The desk ruler is like Elliot Ness and his men, untouchable. The bureaucrat was not voted into the position and cannot be voted out. To quote Cassius to Brutus in Shakespear's "Julius Caesar," "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves." 

"The original bureaucracy of the federal government consisted only of employees from three small departments — State, Treasury, and War. The executive branch employs today almost three million people. Not only have the numbers of bureaucrats grown, but also the methods and standards for hiring and promoting people have changed dramatically." (From ushistory.org)