The Intensive And Concerted Effort To Exclude

Consequently, Citizen Legislators, Rotating Back To Their Communities After A Short Period Of Public Service—considered An Indispensable And Routine Characteristic And Design Of Representative Government At The Time Of The Founding, And For A Century Thereafter—have Been Replaced With A Professional Ruling Class Led By Governing Masterminds. For The Most Part, They Are Isolated From The Communities From Which They Hail And Are Consumed With The Daily Jockeying For Position And Power Within Their Ranks. Moreover, They Both Pander To And Lord Over Their Constituents.

The Statist Deflects Public Scorn For The Consequences Of His Own Central Planning By Blaming The Very Industry He Is Sabotaging For Supply Dislocations And Price Hikes.

The Statist Has An Insatiable Appetite For Control. His Sights Are Set On His Next Meal Even Before He Has Fully Digested His Last. He Is Constantly Agitating For Government Action. And In Furtherance Of That Purpose, The Statist Speaks In The Tongue Of The Demagogue, Concocting One Pretext And Grievance After Another To Manipulate Public Perceptions And Build Popular Momentum For The Divestiture Of Liberty And Property From Its Rightful Possessors.

Government, Not The Oil Industry, Is The Biggest 'profiteer' From Oil. And It Uses The Tax Revenue To Expand Its Own Authority At The Expense Of The Individual, As It Does With An Endless Number Of Other Industries - Including Electric Power, Coal, Lumber, Pharmaceuticals, Automobiles, Aircraft, And Agriculture. The Statist's Intrusion To The Free Market Is Boundless.

Moreover, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Hobbes’s Distrust For The Individual With His Confidence In The Altruistic Nature Of The Individual Or Individuals Who Will Oversee And Control The Leviathan. Are Not The Latter Also Of Flesh And Blood? Hobbes Seems To Be Saying That Man’s Nature Cannot Be Trusted But The Nature Of A Ruler Or A Ruling Assembly Of Men Can Be Trusted. How So?