We attach meaning to words, and those meanings quite often drive our actions.
Our creator provided us with two ears and one mouth for a reason. And, although I have received more than my money’s worth from my mouth, I know that listening is what drives learning and wisdom.
So, I try to listen to the words and the specific connotations that are made by the selection of those words.
We have definite limits on what we consider acceptable and correct, and this creates the ethical box within which we live. It’s a construct that defines us. I’ve found that those who lack those limits are influenced by “group think,” and will do things that polite society considers abhorrent.
Over the past four years, I’ve watched appointees and judges practice “lawfare” and do things politically that are outside of most of our individual ethical bounds. There is a rub, though. I’ve heard far too many of President Trump’s appointees to the alphabet soup agencies in Washington, D.C. make reference to “flip the script.”
If “flip the script” means that they are going to shrink the agencies and reduce their dictatorial powers, I’m all in. That is what we elected them to accomplish. If “flip the script” means we are going to do to them what the Democrat appointees did to us, I’m not so certain.
Both Biden’s and Obama’s appointees did things that I consider fraudulent and completely improper. They overstepped the bounds of their office, knowing full well that any challenge to their edicts would be expensive to their opponents and were not likely to come from individuals, associations, or corporations who, unlike our federal government, have bottom lines (and retirements) to worry about.
During the past 16 years, we witnessed 12 years of explosive government bloat and the increasing malfeasance of our federal, state and local government. We have watched “alphabet soup” agencies infiltrate our state and local governments. They have become experts at using the federal treasury as a lever, forcing your city or county government to do what they want, regardless of how wrong it is for us.
Biden and Obama were desperate to foist an unpopular large government “solution” on an electorate that was demanding less government and less regulation. So, in the best socialist tradition, they were trying to get it done by force.
I’m thoroughly excited about the Trump Administration Version 2.0. Just like you don’t buy a new model of a car until its second production year, or a new software program until Version 2, our President is going to accomplish so much more in his “reboot” term.
But his “boss” is the American people, and we expect the results that he promised, and we expect those results to be delivered ethically, properly, and with breathtaking speed.
I’m sure they will be, but in the interim, I’m doing my best impersonation of the canary in the coal mine.
