The rise of the despotocracy

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American Thinker

May 28, 2023
The rise of the despotocracy
By John Dale Dunn

Excerpt:

American Greatness regularly provides a long essay by an erudite writer whom the site describes as a "Weekend Read." The May 6 offering was by Kevin Slack, Ph.D., University of Dallas, now on the political science/philosophy faculty at Hillsdale College of Michigan, a well regarded conservative institution. The essay is an edifying exposition of the rise of the Western (American and European) elites to become despots.

Plato favored rule by oligarchs, persons of distinction, but Plato ignored the potential for what Lord Acton observed about power and corruption: "Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you super add the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority."

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The Federal Government is too big and intrusive in everyday life, it was supposed to be the state's power was spread out to prevent anyone person or small group from dominating the country.

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The consolidation of all power in DC by democrats and some republicans is unconstitutional.  There is a reason there were three separate and equal branches of government while the states themselves retained most of the power.   This is why they hated Trump, giving back the states the power that is enshrined in the US Constitution.