Yesterday in a comment I quoted a portion of a post by John Hinderaker, which cast doubt on Zhou’s actual functioning in the White House. Hinderaker’s post was prompted by Zhou’s remarkable statements regarding the Student Loan scam, which clearly indicated that Zhou believes that Congress passed an actual law allowing the forgiveness of student loans. The reality, of course, is that Zhou issued an executive order in that regard. No vote in Congress, no law. It was a stunning moment even by the low level of Zhou’s functioning we’ve become accustomed to. Hinderaker asked the obvious questions: Did Zhou simply sign off on a piece of paper that was placed in front of him? Did he have any real idea what he was signing?
Similar questions apply to the war on Russia. Who’s actually in charge of that? Or, really, just about any government activity. Who’s really in charge of that? Who determines policy and issues marching orders to the underlings who carry them out, all the way down to FBI SWAT teams busting into pro-lifers’ homes?
Here are two brief media pieces that raise these questions regarding this trend that we see almost everywhere in the collective West—the transformation of representative government into a sort of Potemkin Village. No, Russia has no monopoly on such pre-fab villages. The Western versions might well make Russians blush. Anyway, you can apply these concepts as widely as you’d like. Please be aware—the Youtube with Doug Macgregor is only tangentially concerned with strictly matters. It’s really all about our government.
The beautiful set-up behind this question of who issues instructions to underlings is that when everything goes haywire, there's no donkey to pin the tail on.
“Rishi Sunak has become prime minister without a vote by anyone and without saying a word in public during his campaign. Quite extraordinary.”
Sure sounds like “Their Democracy” in action.
Remember that it is “Their Democracy,” not ours.