Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

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Welcome to the

the podcast. This is episode 289. My name is Douglas Wilson. I'm glad you

decided to join us. It's good to have you here. So as we are looking at the the malgovernance that we are suffering under, one of the things we have to realize is that the enemy is not this political party or that political party because in many respects it's a unip party.

In many respects it's not there's not really a dime's worth of difference between the players in each political party.

And this helps explain why our elections go the way they do. The administrative state, otherwise known as the deep state,

otherwise known as the swamp, is they are the true power brokers. They are the ones who run the show. And this is what explains why,

however the election goes, the government always seems to get in. So something has to be done about the administrative state.

And the administrative state, well,

I'll begin with all the three letter agencies, the EPA, the IRS, the FBI, ATF, you know,

they would be the administrative state. Now the pretense is that these are agencies that

have their authority delegated to them by the executive. So if you've taken a civics class you know that there are three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial.

And then the legislative is divided at the national level into two chambers, the House and the Senate.

And there's an exquisite balance of power.

Now in this thinking, all these agencies are extensions of the executive power.

So the president has basically delegated power to these agencies to implement the laws that Congress passes.

But the administrative state has swollen and has grown beyond all mortal reckoning such that these agencies can promulgate regulations

that Congress never thought of, Congress never saw, no representative ever voted for it, and no executive ever told the agency to do it.

So you could, for example, this actually happened to me, well, it almost happened to me. I was worried it might happen to me.

A number of years ago, we had our house was on three acres just out of town.

And our house was up on a hill and our acreage went down to the road and there was a

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