Of the Wealthy, by the Wealthy, for the Wealthy

 

It becomes clearer by the day that the primary purpose of the frenetic actions of the current regime is to benefit those who require no benefit, but seek more nonetheless.  This hunger after more money and assets is to be expected in the addicted.  Like the gluttons and hoarders they emulate, they consume and acquire merely to do so.  But the very wealthy are more wretched than their fellow addicts, as their mania for acquisition is at the expense of those struggling for even a small part of available resources.

Tellingly, the actions taken to reduce the size of government impact those departments which police corruption and conflicts of interest, enforce taxation or otherwise those areas which aren't important to the wealthy, such as education and healthcare.  They cut foreign aid, which is also without benefit to the wealthy. But the regime has ends in view beyond pandering to the rich.

For example, it's determined to stop the "persecution" of Christians it somehow believes is taking place within government.  It's devoted to the eradication of diversity initiatives, thus protecting the rights of mistreated Caucasians through a kind of process of elimination. Weirdly, the regime engages in a kind of crusade against transgenders and others whose sexual orientation differs from the norm (an extension of America's peculiar obsession with sex).

All this is secondary, though. I think most of these initiatives are stunts, intended to assuage the concerns of social conservatives making up the regime's base (there are no more political conservatives--civil rights are impediments to autocrats and plutocrats).

History teaches us that the wealthy prefer autocracy to democracy.  It's far easier to control a single person or small group than playing political parties against one another.  From the perspective of the wealthy, it would be ideal that all countries of the world be governed by autocrats who are at the beck and call of the rich. It's unsurprising, then, that our chubby-cheeked and obedient vice-president is urging European countries to give the far-right more of a say and that we cater to the Kremlin.

The efforts to expand Executive authority can't reasonably be characterized as preserving a democratic form of government or defense of the Constitution.  Those seeking to transform the government are violating their oaths to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, which should come as no surprise.