Our Swamp Can and Will Be Drained Again

The great cost of letting a government expand is beyond question. In the immortal words of Dennis Prager, "the bigger the government, the cmaller the Citizen."

Like nature, government abhors a vacuum. If too much space or freedom for American individual self-governance exists, government sprints to fill it. Biden administration big-government progressives have great disregard for middle class America and freedom. Reminding ourselves of what remains true is paramount.

We needn't meekly accept government's augmented size and role. America's government still remains the people's to hire and fire. The first 10 of our 27 constitutional amendments were written precisely to ensure this.

The Ninth Amendment explicitly states, "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The 10^th Amendment is also crystal clear. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

We citizens collectively allow governments into our own divinely endowed private sphere as free citizens. We alone permit funding our tripartite government. We allow each branch to perform their respective roles. We give government permission to exist and function. We are the Big Brother to the government, not vice versa.

Replace "You didn't build that." Government is your employee.

Thank God our Founders gifted us their beautiful Constitution. A pox on leftist leaders constantly seeking to subvert, minimize or amend it. A plague on political hucksters on the right preaching small government while attacking Trump's anti-institutionalist, America First agenda.

For government, controlling our individual and societal rights is a numbers and paper game. The main taproot question is: "How many pages of laws exist in federal and state registries?"

The fewer laws, the better. If the federal government ceased lawmaking for a decade, the states could handle things. New laws are unnecessary.

Government wants you to forget your rights and universal truths. They return some of your money they seized from you, hoping to bribe you into forgetting amendments nine and 10. They fill liberty vacuums with more laws. Good people are too smart and moral to fall for this.

Trump understood that shrinking government was absolutely doable. His Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs executive order called for agencies to repeal two existing regulations for each proposed new regulation.

Government today is bigger and more invasive than ever. President Joe Biden nearly surpassed New Deal records in his first two months of executive orders. Pandemic-fatigued Americans just wanted to return to work, not monitor government. Their exhaustion created the perfect window of opportunity for the Biden administration's cadre of hard-left progressive socialists to strike hard.

After this soul-crushing government expansion, Americans are awake and alert again. We are remembering that we are the Big Brothers, not government. We have to diligently watch government through our system of checks and balances, not blindly trust government.

The government is not your friend, your mother or your father to depend upon for survival or protect you from the risks, failure or natural life cycles.

For old age and sickness, both parties agree to basic citizen support through Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (although they should be privatized).

A federal government is a necessary tolerable organizational problem to be minimized rather than exalted. It was created for establishing a currency, roads, a military, a justice system and a legislative democratic system. It was never meant to be a solutions bureau.

Bills once ran several pages. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 was approximately 5,600 pages, including 27 pages of "extensions and technical corrections" to other laws.

Government is now narcissistic, sociopathic and uncaring toward its citizens.

Bigger government never works. Mandatory COVID lockdowns shut down our economy, eliminated savings, and permanently killed thousands of businesses. This caused massive increases in suicide, mental health problems, drug addictions, and crime. Government also opened our borders, illegally redistributed wealth, destroyed supply chains, created massive inflation through profligate spending, decimated the middle class, destroyed lives, and spread misery.

Until the 1913 ratification of the Constitution's 16^th Amendment, America had no federal income tax. We also had zero debt. Consistently higher taxes and bigger government haven't strengthened America.

Our country was wisely set up to be funded from three sources: 1) The states, 2) Tariffs on trade for the privilege of vast resources, innovation and hard work, and 3) Our human capital in our just, free economy driven by our individual excellence and hard-working nature.

This remains true. Patriots must vigilantly remind ourselves daily that we are Big Brother and government work for us. Thanks to our brilliant and properly paranoid Founders, short-term darkness can be overcome at any moment. Our swamp can and will be drained again.

Host of ''Unapologetic with Judd Dunning'' on KABC AM790 and on YouTube and Co-Host of "BulletPointNation" with Fox's Michael Loftus, Judd Dunning is a political author, host, pundit and producer. Judd is also both a Newsmax Regular Guest Commentator, and just authored his new Humanix/Newsmax Book "13½ Reasons Why NOT To Be A Liberal: And How to Enlighten Others." — More Here.