Progressives Are Doing the Wrong Things Right

Does “tweaking” the wrong things makes them righter? [1]

“Most large social systems (like the Federal Government today) are pursuing social objectives other than the ones they proclaim, and the ones they pursue are wrong.” Russell Ackoff

As noted in “The Progressive Rejection of the Constitution,” and, “America’s Political Chasm,” there is a long history of doing this. However, in the near past, governments still had one foot in the Constitution. Today, that has changed. Current governments (any), have totally abandoned the Constitution, the current government in a very public and blatant way are pushing, with their majority in a strong Congress, and a feeble Executive Branch and weak SCOTUS Branch (they will “pack the court”), to own government for the next century meanwhile, ripping the Constitution to shreds.

So Far -

1. Undoing all actions that restricted how federal agencies make regulatory changes — Meaning, allowing the 4th (Unconstitutional) Branch of government to continue writing laws regulating our lives.
2. Undoing policies that barred entry from illegal immigrants crossing our borders without any legal papers, including from several Muslim countries.
3. Adding new 4th (Unconstitutional) departments, thus increasing the government size above the estimated 2,500,000 Civil Servants working for the Federal Government
4. Undoing all actions related to the control of undocumented immigrants thus, shielding them from deportation.
5. Adding regulations without any limits into our system, thus violating all controls and coordination required by the Constitution and imposing on all our citizens the cost burden of such. (triggering inflation)
6. Adding undocumented immigrants into our census, the number may exceed 22,000,000 and, with open gates, is still rising today.
7. Canceling the Keystone XL permit, an action that increases pump prices and inflation.
8. Renewing focus on the “climate crisis” as if it was something we are causing when our carbon footprint is one of the lowest in the world, thus increasing inflation.
9. Adding regulations “Banning Discrimination,” adding to our country’s political chasm, we are NOT bigots, the government is.
10. Adding orders to the ”Office of Budget” a 4th branch of government, to oversee the efforts to expedite the regulatory review process. adding to the unregulated burden on the people and thus inflation.
11. Shutting down the completion of the border wall, increases the people’s risk of the worst elements of the world coming through unscathed.
12. Violating our most basic rights of freedom and without a “National Emergency Status, “ writing regulations to “order” all the people to wear masks on all forms of public transportation.
13. Violating our most basic rights of freedom and without a “National Emergency Status, “ writing regulations to “direct” the 4th branch of government, “Defense of the Homeland” and “Homeland Security” to “support” governors’ deployment of the National Guard, as needed to, “prevent the spread of the coronavirus. These actions will be fully funded by (us) through another 4th branch of government agency, the “Federal Emergency Management Agency. Using “Citizens under orders” to guard “family and friends” during ANY protest, no matter how small.
14. Implementing new regulations to “create” yet another 4th branch department, the “Health Equity Task Force” to, force the federal allocation of resources to “minimize” disparity results by race, ethnicity, and “other factors.”
15. Establishing yet another 4th branch of government in the “pandemic testing board” to, “coordinate” national efforts to diagnose, screen, and surveillance testing of COVID-19, thus increasing bloating of government and inflation to us.
16. Paying more people not to work. The 4th branch of government “Department of Labor” is to add regulations to pay people not to work if they feel so compelled thus, adding to the government payroll at will and cost to those working thus, increasing inflation.
17. Adding to the 4th branch of government “a Network of Benefits Delivery Teams” to make it “efficient” for the government to deliver money, thus adding to inflation quicker.
18. Adding efficiency of money delivery through the “Treasury Department,” another 4th branch of government by automating a “series of actions to improve delivery of stimulus payments, including the creation of online tools for recipients of checks.” Thus, increasing inflation more efficiently.

Further -

1. Let’s not forget Congress’ big push to add progressive territories as “states of the Union.”
2. The latest is to do away with the “Electoral College” something establish by our Founders. Thus, turning our Nation into a “pure Majority” vote country and totally violating the rights of a single individual as we were during the “Articles of the Confederacy.” Those with BIG money will swing government.

Several observations can be made by the transparency of this government, based on what it has put in place so far, including the plan they have made visible by the ACTs the want to pass in Congress:

1. First and most important, the “Progressives” are moving quickly to ensure a “Perennial Progressive” government. This is similar to what the PRI (the Institutional Revolutionary Party) was in Mexico for 70 years. This has been the plan since the Obama days.
2. The Federal Government has instituted an “Open Border” policy which has created a massive influx of non-English speaking, poorest people in central America, and possibly bands of the most savage criminals on the planet. This type of action recreates the social problems we had during the “controlled” massive immigration to the United States during the late 1800s.
3. The Federal Government Centralism muscle is palpable. They order States around these days. Another way to look at it is, we are giving too much money to the Central Government, not enough to our own states. If we did this we could reduce the 4th branch of government to nothing if possible. It is better for the states to “help” the Federal Government than the other way around.
4. Progressives want complete and absolute power. For this, the “size of the government” is important. Also, the “Control of the people” is important.
5. The progressive move is to replace our “freedom” with “dependency.” the basic assumption here is that “government knows best.” we forget that behind “government” today there are, GIANT corporations that have been allowed to monopolize very Profitable “Digital Territories.” With them directing government, “the people” become their “Serfs.”
6. Last but just as important, the Progressives have moved further to the left and have used legislation emergency power clauses introduce with the Civil Rights Act” legislation to continually introduce legislation as if we still lived in a 1960’ environment of racism. Christopher Caldwell in a talk delivered January 28, 2020, at Hillsdale College entitled, “The Roots of Our Partisan Divide” said, “American society today is divided by party and ideology in a way it has perhaps not been since the Civil War.”

Some History — The Original, Massive Internal Migration

After the Civil War ended (1865), during the Reconstruction Republicans had:

1. The Southern States ratified the 14th Amendment. This ensures citizenship rights of “equal protection under the Constitution to formerly enslaved people.
2. Congress approved the 15th Amendment which guaranteed, that the citizens’ right to vote could not be denied “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

The Reconstruction work (1865–1877), yielded many positive results in the Southern States, creating state-funded public school systems, laws against racial discrimination, equitable taxation legislation, and many development programs for railroads and other enterprises. However, over time underground resistance grew with whites turning into violence to prevail. Though Ulysses S. Grant with Congress passed more legislation, white “supremacy” over time reasserted itself through many progressives anchoring themselves in positions of power, accelerated by an economic depression that brought much of the South into poverty. This brought us to the 1960s when the “Civil Rights” movement revived the legacy of Reconstruction, now with a Progressive flair. The ’60s were turbulent times starting with The Assassination of John F. Kennedy to now; with the consent of Lyndon B. Johnson, the fake attacks on the USS Maddox were performed and Congress, following the Presidents lead and request passed a resolution nearly unanimously, allowing the Federal Government to “take all necessary measures” to protect U.S. forces in Vietnam, thus starting the war which He later resigned for. This was the start of what Christopher Caldwell, in his book “The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties” chapter titled called “1963, Race, Sex, War, Debt, Diversity, Winners, and Losers.”

Johnson started a series of federal programs. By law, he instituted federal actions against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment (starting the perennial perception that we are bigots). he instituted “Head Start,” the so-called, “War on poverty.” He created what was called “the Great Society,” policies to fight social injustices. and other perennial programs we have today like Medicare and Medicaid; because of Medicare, many large corporations dropped such programs from their retirement plans saving them money to give back to investors. Johnson started “HUD” (Housing and Urban Development Department), another 4th branch of government; facets of this program, in essence, segregated poor people into huge federal housing buildings that created colonies with their own social environments and gang problems (e.g. New York, Detroit).

Short Study of Migrations

Since Reconstruction, nobody recognized that the root cause of the internal migration problem. It was a massive, forced, internal assimilation of migrating people from a prior no-choice servitude (slaves) into a very closed “aristocratic (by thought)” society. All massive migrations create social dislocations. The same dislocation and undesirable effects would have happened if all 4 Million Blacks had migrated North, as discussed in “Root Cause,” below.

Immigration on the East Coast was mostly Irish (1620–1921), landed to be sorted and given identification papers, better conditions than the Chinese on the west coast. This also happened at the time when rural Americans were migrating back to the metropolitan cities. However, the Irish were easier to assimilate for they spoke English, most were Protestant or Presbyterians and had useful skills and, brought some savings to start a new life. After 1846, Irish Catholics arrived, they spoke mostly Irish and broken English, destitute and running from the potato famine. They found discrimination because they were unskilled and took many menial jobs to survive. The massive internal assimilation and integration in the Southern States were not under the same circumstances but were similar to the assimilation of immigrants from China to build the railroads. their assimilation started in San Francisco which became a microcosm of racism at the time, mostly centered around China Town but was pervasive everywhere, including the railroad areas. People lost their jobs and the Irish-Americans lost their jobs to cheaper labor. All of it created racial frictions, easier to fix for the Irish who spoke the same language but not for other races discriminated by language or color. Chinese immigration was stopped by the Federal Government due to the poor conditions of entry and adaptation. However, the most pernicious problems existed in the Southern States where visible prejudice survived even world war II. However, the Federal Government instead of using a scalpel, used a pavement roller across the Nation to fix the problem (LBJs Civil Rights Act with a perennial emergency measure to apply it anytime, anywhere an uneven number was found, thus becoming the “moral law of the land”).

The Progressives Continue to Do the Wrong Things Right

The Lyndon B. Johnson Civil Rights Act of July 2, 1964, was legislation that outlawed all forms of discrimination and whose emergency measures exist to this day. This in itself may have been a good Law for the land, however, the Progressives, using the 4th branch of government, have, over the years continually introduced regulations, to control racial infraction in any area of society thus, make people believe, that in this country all of us are bigots. Meanwhile, creating many undesirable effects. One of them is the creation of the chasm in our society today, achieved by the continual creation of “equality” regulations under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights ACT. This ACT was also used by the EPA to achieve “Environmental Justice” in their mission, called by some “systemic environmental racism.” It was also used to introduce a “desegregation health policy.” The essence of The Civil Rights Act is a “Moral Adjustment of Our Society By-Law,” which is wrong. It is not a better education for our citizens, it is not the Federal government working towards producing an environment that CREATES opportunities for the poorest of its citizens. It is about using the Peoples’ money to “REGULATE” its citizens by force using the 4th (Unconstitutional) branch of government. That is the difference between “doing the right thing” and doing “things right.” When you do the wrong things right and continue to use it, you are just doing the wrong things righter. It improves nothing.

Root Cause

People just don’t “melt into our social system.” The social pressure the single action of mass immigration creates will simulate the “racial” prejudices we saw in the late 1800s. The repercussion waves go deep in our society. In addition to more poverty and lawlessness, it will cost US money we don’t have to maintain these people (Inflation); it will put strains on our support system (jobs, housing, jails) as we have never seen before; It will create more tension in our social systems.

Social systems are operationally closed systems that continually reproduce themselves (it is an autopoietic system). They rely on resources from “their” environment; these resources do not become part of our system overnight thus, they are not part of our current system of operation. These systems require both thought and time for assimilation. A well-planned immigration system is required to allow this to happen. Massive immigration truncates all that and creates chaos in our social system. There is NO time for the filtering and processing of information from the environment being created for our social system and the social system being brought in. This creates natural barriers, Social systems are closed systems, without language, thoughts and perceptions cannot be directly transmitted thus, not reaching inside our system and gaining acceptance. This creates immigrant colonies inside our social system. these colonies have their own environment. These create natural barriers to further entrance into the local social system. the friction creates, for example, the gang problems we saw back in the 60s.

These colony systems then perpetuate themselves and become chronic problems for which the Federal Government tries to intervene with MORE regulations and WE, the ones that have assimilated and the native population, get blamed, creating another internal struggle. Thus, progressives believe the government is right and anyone not speaking “their” language gets blamed for “racism.” A chasm in our society is created. The Progressive Federal Government trying to regulate MORALS is a total failure because it only underlines a condition or conditions that would not otherwise exist. consequences of ‘Uncontrolled” Massive Immigration waves constitute irresponsible actions by the Federal Government and puts a near irreparable load on our society.

So far the Biden and the Progressive Congress have excelled at doing the wrong things right. But, they are not alone. Today, ANY Session of Congress acts as if “The People” do not count. They ALL continue to push BILLS through Congress and let the 4th Branch of Government implement them as THEY wish with whatever REGULATIONS they see fit. We are Serfs no matter who is in charge. Has anyone living today seen an Amendment for “The People” to approve? We should at least have seen “The Patriot ACT,” where they can take us to “secret courts” and try us without representation or a jury of our peers, as an Amendment, so WE would have a choice to approve or disapprove it.

Footnote:

[1] Russell Ackoff — “Most large social systems are pursuing objectives other than the ones they proclaim, and the ones they pursue are wrong. They try to do the wrong thing righter, and this makes what they do wronger. It is much better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right, because when errors are corrected, it makes doing the wrong thing wronger but the right thing righter. Examples:

1. The healthcare system of the United States is not a healthcare system; it is a sickness and disability-care system.
2. The educational system is not dedicated to produce learning by students, but teaching by teachers — and teaching is a major obstruction to learning. A student once asked me in what year I had last taught a class on a subject that existed when I was a student. A great question. After some thought, I told him 1951. “Boy,” he said, “you must be a good learner. What a pity you can’t teach as well as you can learn.” He had it right.
3. The principal function of most corporations is not to maximize shareholder value, but to maximize the standard of living and quality of work-life of those who manage the corporation. Providing the shareholders with a return on their investments is a requirement, not an objective. As Peter Drucker observed, profit is to a corporation as oxygen is to a human being: necessary for existence, not the reason for it. A corporation that fails to provide an adequate return for its investment to its employees and customers is just as likely to fail as one that does not reward its shareholders adequately. The most valuable and least replaceable resource is time. Without the time of employees, money can produce nothing. Employees have a much larger investment in most corporations than their shareholders. Corporations should be maximizing stakeholder, not shareholder, value to employees, customers, and shareholders.”