Disestablishmentarianism

Post #1051

Disestablishmentarianism is a form of ‘creative destruction’ in which establishments are broken up. In its current form, the US government is now an entrenched bureaucracy of government insiders — a Deep State. Enjoying privileged positions of power, Deep State actors will practice “status quo” anti-disestablishmentarianism.

They have become part of The Establishment.

Reason magazine just came out with an issue based on abolishing many embodiments of federal government. Here is a modified version of their list, one which includes 30 total things to abolish:

Abolish Amtrak

Abolish Antitrust

Abolish the Army

Abolish Borders*

Abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau**

Abolish the DEA

Abolish the Department of Education

Abolish the Department of Transportation

Abolish the EPA

Abolish the FCC

Abolish the FDA

Abolish the Fed

Abolish the Federal Minimum Wage

Abolish Federal Student Loans

Abolish FEMA

Abolish FOIA*

Abolish ICE

Abolish the IRS—and the Income Tax Too

Abolish NASA**

Abolish the National Park Service

Abolish the NSA and CIA

Abolish Obamacare

Abolish the Small Business Administration

Abolish Social Security

Abolish the TSA

Abolish the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

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*While “Borders” and “FOIA” are in the original list, I suspect that the reasoning behind them being in the list may be shoddy reasoning — reasoning which might buckle under the weight of a full-on rational assault of push-back — though I don’t have a subscription, so I could not (yet) access the issue itself, to examine the reasons.

**The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and NASA were mentioned as being deserving of being in the list, but were withheld for secondary reasons, such as space limitations and repetition of previously-argued points in Reason magazine.

I agree with abolishing 28 of the 30 things mentioned in the list, but I want to see the reasoning that supposedly argues for abolishing “Borders” and “FOIA.” On the surface, neither of those things appears rational or even historical/constitutional.