Yes & furthermore I think we are, more than ever, into a time of "rent a Government" - in both senses of 'rent'. An elected group essentially is given a 4 to 8 year lease to run the operations according to their business. etc. objectives. The operations are served by outside contractors, an owned media, etc. You protect those objectives with an Attorney General, a stacked court, etc., etc.
The balance of power, consent of the governed, etc. are entirely outmoded as a means to securing objectives. Executive Power becomes synochronous with Monarchy.
& we wonder why people feel toxic in this country?? What's left of its Federal fabric poisoned. Definitely got bad 'tenants' this time around who have 'rented' (as in asunder) the contract.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Governments should indeed be scared of their people. And, in fact,
they are. The currently preferred remedy is to make us all scared of
each other, too. [DF]
That depends what you mean by 'governments'. In the UK, for example, for
*government* in the ministerial sense, the balance has shifted considerably
from the executive towards the affective. That is, to use current commercial
jargon, ministers are largely 'customer facing' functions (as are proactive
departments such as *marketing* or responsive departments such as *customer
relations*) _within_ something else. And executive power, _control_, has
increasingly been resorbed into the machinery, the technology, in which we
(and government in this visible sense) are embedded.
CW
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