After 232 years of the vicious dynamic of Interest Group Liberalism and rent seeking at work since ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, democracy in America faces a crisis of contradiction: The more obese government becomes, the more people demand of it; the more inept government proves itself to be at providing even the most basic public services, the more people clamor for government to do more; the more government regulation fails to solve the problems it was created to correct, the more collateral damage it wreaks yet the more people bellow for it to regulate even more to solve the new problems it created trying to solve the original problems; the more government exhibits a corrupting and withering touch, the farther voters extend its creepy reach to poke and pry into the interstices of people’s lives; the more power and money voters give government to pursue the general welfare, the more it uses them both to pursue its own special interests and oppress the people under the guise of the “public interest” and the “greater good of the community.”
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