Southern Poverty Law Center Exposed

In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999), Senator Palpatine used the Federation's blockade of Naboo to create a crisis in the Galactic Senate.  The government of Chancellor Valorum collapsed and Palpatine became the new Chancellor.  In Attack of the Clones, Count Dooku led many planets to secede from the Galactic Republic, which led to Chancellor Palpatine creating the clone army to fight a galactic civil war, the Clone Wars.  Finally, in Revenge of the Sith, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine used his clone army to wipe out the Jedi, the only force left to oppose his rise to Emperor.  The Galactic Empire was born.

In each movie, Palpatine is the instigator of the crisis that he then must fight.  In Phantom, his disciple, Darth Maul, was advising the Federation, creating the very crisis that led to Palpatine's chancellorship.  In Attack, his next disciple, Dooku, stoked the civil war that required an army of clones - answerable to the Chancellor - to put down.  In the final film, he used the gaslit and brainwashed Anakin Skywalker to kill the Jedi-in-training while his clone army killed the rest that were in the field.  Darth Sidious was a brilliant manipulator who engineered his rise by creating crises to expand his influence and power.

That brings us to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  The SPLC has spent years funding the very things they claim to fight, exactly like Palpatine.  The SPLC funded Charlottesville's Unite the Right rally that became a huge source of anti-Trump talking points.  They have funded hate groups and then called upon donors to help fight the rise of those very hate groups.  If the SPLC wasn't funding these hate groups, would there be enough hate to fund the SPLC?  Apparently not, or they wouldn't do it.

Worse, the FBI had to know about this long before now.  This is willful blindness on their part.  But why?  The FBI is a part of big government and, by its very nature, it is going to support that which leads to bigger government.  That is the problem with the Deep State.  The SPLC is pro-big government and therefore has been given a pass by Deep Staters.  The Deep State is the Empire and it will eagerly destroy those who oppose them, while also overlooking the crimes of their allies.

Support for the Spoils System

In his latest Substack essay, Glenn Harlan Reynolds explains why the Pendelton Act of 1883 has failed and how a return to the spoils system that preceded it would restore government accountability to the voters.  Check it out!

Spoils System was Better

In the early days of the nation, all positions in the federal government were up for grabs after the election.  One of the most onerous jobs of a new president was to deal with those who had supported his campaign now looking for a job in the new government.  Most presidents picked a member of the cabinet to do this, but that didn't prevent job seekers from pestering the president himself.  Every job in the bureaucracy was available.  Of course, those selected for the position were often unsuited.  It was little more than a way to pay supporters who then did a mediocre or worse job in the position.  Thus was born Civil Service Reform.  Rather than hiring a new patent clerk, why not just keep the one that is there?  It is a non-political position and should be filled by someone with the skills required, rather than some random campaign supporter.  Yes, that was a perfectly sensible idea.

However, now a new problem arises.  A system was now in place where an administration could establish a new bureaucracy and then populate it with supporters.  The next administration would no longer be able to just sweep them away.  Is it any wonder that the federal government now employs more than 23 million people?  That is more than the population of Florida, our 3rd most populous state, who are working for the government.  This is what civil service reform got us.  Worse, these people are not non-partisan professionals.  Washington DC and the surrounding counties vote 90% Democrat, showing that the bureaucracy class - the Deep State - is clearly on one side.  When a Democrat is in office, the multitude of alphabet agencies implement the new policies with vigor.  When a Republican is in office, the gears of government grind to a halt as those same agencies slow walk the new policies.

Though the idea of non-partisan professionals was great in theory, it has utterly failed in practice.  It is time to return to the spoils system.  The Augean Stable needs to be cleaned.  Vivek Ramaswamy has floated the idea of disolving the FBI and placing the various useful special agents in related agencies (US Marshals, Secret Service, Treasury, etc.) and eliminating the administrative bloat that is more than half the FBI.  He also wants to close the Department of Education, which has improved our nation's educational standing not at all since its inception.

We are supposed to have a limited government.  Let's do some limiting!

As the Deep State Turns

Look at all the evidence that is poring into the open about Hunter Biden and the Big Guy.  Devon Archer has testified to Congress and confirmed that Joe Biden was involved in multiple calls and meeting with Hunter's business associates.  In fact, he confirmed the Burisma story where Joe Biden arranged to fire a prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.  Yeah, Trump was entirely justified in asking the Ukrainian president to look into that, but he was impeached for it instead.  The Bidens have offshore shell corporations that have received money from overseas.  Of course, we knew most of this several years ago.  Why is it coming out now?  Because the Deep State can't hold back the tide with a broom.  Time to cut their losses.  Joe Biden will not be running for another term.

So who will run in his stead?  Kamala Harris?  Not a chance.  She was the first to be eliminated from the 2020 primaries, before voting even started, and is mostly an embarrassment to the administration.   They certainly don't want RFK Jr.  He has a longstanding dislike of the Deep State, viewing it as responsible for the death of his father and uncle.  He will not be an ally like Obama or a puppet like Biden.  No, who can they get?  Governor Newsome of California!  The Democratic Party put a thumb on the scale to get Hillary instead of Bernie Sanders and will do it again.  Those superdelegates decide the nominee while the ordinary delegates just give the impression that it was a democratic race.

To give the Democratic nominee a better chance to win, the Deep State has indicted the leading Republican candidate.  Trump has been repeatedly indicted.  Where Trump asking questions on one phone call before Joe Biden had even announced his presidential run was deemed an impeachable offense, it turns out that siccing the DOJ on your opponent is just fine.  It is very hard to hide the two-tiered justice system these days.

The 2nd American Civil War?

Here is an interesting analysis of current events.  It is a long video but here are a few highlights.  He makes a strong case but then I am biased against government in general and willing to believe the worst of it.  No one wants to surrender power which is why George Washington is great; he surrendered power when he could have been monarch.  He set a precedent that held until FDR, almost 150 years later.  These unelected bureaucrats who have been able to regulate to their hearts content for decades are suddenly forced to repeal 2 regulations for every new one!  That shrinks their power!  How dare he?  Tax cuts?  Yet another reduction in the centralized power of the state.  Those who don't believe in the Deep State willfully ignore that Hillary won the District of Columbia by 90% to 4%.  That 90% is not happy and a substantial portion of them have joined the Resistance.  What did Lincoln say: A house divided against itself cannot stand.

 

Bring back the spoils system.  Better yet, shrink the government to the original 4 cabinet posts and leave everything else to the states.