Ned Ryun, Author of "American Leviathan"
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Is America actually being governed by the people, as it was originally set up to do? Are the citizens truly participating in a representative democracy? Author Ned Ryun says, “No.”. Agencies — like the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Education Agency, etc — are running the show. Unelected elitists believe they know what’s best for everyone, and they decide how legislation is written and implemented. Donald Trump is a threat to this “administrative state,” and that’s why he is feared. He will interrupt the status quo. But is that a bad thing?
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| 0:00.0 | What if Kamala Harris is our president in January of 2025? How much worse does this get? |
| 0:06.2 | These guys tend to believe that the government, the state is all powerful, deciding we will dictate to the American people what will take place on a whole host of front. |
| 0:18.3 | So if you think the administrative state is becoming a bad actor and I think it's been a bad actor for a long time, have some people in the White |
| 0:24.9 | House that are fully on the same page with the administrative state actors, with this unbelievable power |
| 0:31.0 | to dictate to the American people. Yeah, sorry, no more gas stoves. Sorry, you can all have to have |
| 0:36.2 | electric vehicles. Actually, social credit scores, you've been very. Sorry, you can all have to have electric vehicles. |
| 0:39.4 | Actually, social credit scores. |
| 0:42.6 | You've been very naughty online, so we're going to have to restrict your travel. |
| 0:44.5 | I can see all of this happening. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:53.6 | Well, this isn't Ned Ryan's first rodeo. |
| 1:10.9 | He's written a number of books, but this one, American Leviathan, is very important. Let me give you a sense of it in this paragraph. But what is the right size and scope of government for us today? Not for anywhere except the United States. That's the real question and one that needs to be fleshed out, |
| 1:15.2 | starting from the notions that government should be limited in size and scope, that those unelected bureaucrats who staff the government are actually beneath and accountable |
| 1:21.8 | to the people's duly elected representatives, that those representatives delegated authority |
| 1:27.3 | by the American people |
| 1:28.9 | are the ones who should actually be governing and that the government, which is of, by and for the |
| 1:35.7 | people should actually work to advance the interests and priorities of the American people. |
| 1:42.0 | We're not there right now. How do we get there? |
| 1:45.8 | How did we get here? |
| 1:47.7 | And what's at stake in this election? |
| 1:50.3 | You're going to really enjoy listening to Ned Ryan. |
| 1:52.6 | He is next. |
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