Credit for those five words of modern American clarity goes to Stephen Green at Instapundit as he linked to a column titled Hunter Biden Special Counsel Appointment Is a Blatant Act of Corruption. After making exactly that case six ways to Sunday, that piece ended with:

It’s worth remembering that the special counsel exists to allow government the ability to avoid conflicts of interest that occasionally hamper federal investigations. Weiss, though, is a walking conflict of interest. And the only plausible reason Garland gave him the job is so he would continue protecting the president.

Another week, another act of blatant corruption waved right under our noses. A few voices do speak out about how “Weiss is a United States Attorney and therefore ineligible for special counsel appointment under the applicable regulations” but the media dutifully ignores it all and stalls until the next outrage or pre-planned pseudo-event takes over during the next news cycle. In the end, the corruption stands and major portions of We the People are further desensitized to a government and a regime that continues to slouch towards being in complete “contradiction with everything that was stated, proclaimed, intended, and thought during the Revolution itself.”^[1] Which brings me back the sentiment in the title above…

I have often phrased it as something like “they don’t even bother to hide the corruption anymore” but the fact that it has always seemed more aggressive than that has gnawed at my mind for quite some time. But there it is: The show of their unrestricted power IS THE POINT…and it has all been honed into a big game for them. (“Them” being those wielding the levers of power behind the husk of emptiness that is FJB…and, to be sure, they do giggle about all of this continuation of undefined “Hope and Change” over at the Obama place every night.) EXAMPLE: How many times in the last decade has a Democrat president spend months telling us that he does not have the power to do something and then he wakes up one morning and does exactly that. And then the empty headed media whores play along – reliably incurious and willfully compliant – exactly as we have come to expect. In many ways the powerful also enjoy the intellectually shallow media narrative that always follows…it is but another demonstration of their power (and something they need to exercise to maintain efficient working control).

This is a powerful lens through which to most accurately view current events these days. But to see the full scope of the relentless Progressive attack on We the People from within our government – don’t think for a minute that this is as simple as R vs D – I would send you back to at least the shenanigans displayed during the ramming of Obamacare down our throats, if not the blatant illegalities associated with the auto bailout shortly before that (See: The Auto Bailout and the Rule of Law). I posit that a review of just about all major news events since then – with an eye on the fact that their blatant disregard for the guardrails on power was an intentional and important part of the script – would explain much about how and why we got to where we are today. The demonstration of power and exercise of control is all part of the process to undermine liberty and the rule of law.

The unwise path we now follow emerges in well known territory. I return again to Victor Serge…he knew the destination very well:

The most shameless lying conceivable blazed out before our very eyes. But as witnesses we were practically gagged. In Pravda I could read the accounts (all of them mangled) of the Trials. I picked out literally hundreds of improbabilities, absurdities, gross distortions of fact, utterly lunatic statements. But it was a deluge of delirium. Scarcely had I analyzed one billow of flagrant deceit when another, more violent, would wash away my day’s work into futility. The torrent was so overwhelming that one could never find one’s bearings. … … And in every country of the civilized world , learned and “progressive” jurists were found who thought these proceedings to be correct and convincing. It was turning into a tragic lapse of the whole modern conscience. … ^[2]

Our abyss grows deeper and more perilous.^[3]…and 2024 looms very large.

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[1] Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge, Page 326

[2] Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge, Page 386

[3] REFERENCE: “Since then the abyss has grown deeper and more perilous, with new and more dreadful terrors lurking at the bottom. The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism – relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual deviancy into polymorphous perversity.” – On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society by Gertrude Himmelfarb, Page 6