On Saturday’s Fox News‘s “Unfiltered,” host Dan Bongino slammed the Democrat-controlled government for treating the American people like “infants,” telling his audience that adults don’t need the government to make decisions for them.
The federal government has become a nanny state, while its sole purpose was to be nothing more than an agent to assist the states on issues of nationhood. That’s it.
The Founding Fathers understood that each state is a nation state, or a country if you will, with its own laws, norms, and traditions, and they didn’t want the states to have to deal with nationhood problems so that they could run their states to the betterment of their people The federal government was created to handle very specific things and so the Constitution gave 18 enumerated powers to it and they are listed in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.
If you read James Madison’s Federalist 45, among other things, he explains the powers of the federal government and the powers of the states:
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. As the former periods will probably bear a small proportion to the latter, the State governments will here enjoy another advantage over the federal government. The more adequate, indeed, the federal powers may be rendered to the national defense, the less frequent will be those scenes of danger which might favor their ascendancy over the governments of the particular States.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELNotice how Madison says that the powers to the federal government are few and defined, while every other power will go to the States and are numerous and indefinite.
He even gets into examples of each. For example, he says “The former will be exercised principally on external objects,” which means that the federal government will only deal with nationhood issues. He goes on to give the examples of this such as “war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.” These are issues of nationhood that the Founders didn’t want the States to be fighting over.
He goes on to mention the issues that the States will handle, being “all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.” That means EVERYTHING not specifically enumerated (that means numbered for those of you who claim to be liberals).
This means that whenever the federal government wants to give itself a power that isn’t already listed in the Constitution, it needs to go through the Amendment process. And we used to do that too until the Progressive movement took hold at the beginning of the 20th century. Now, the federal Congress feels it can pass any law it wants without Constitutional limitations.
Here is what the great Dan Bongino had to say, and I’m sure many Americans have the same sentiment.
Via Fox News:
“I’m tired of the government treating us like infants, folks,” Bongino started out saying. “No, I mean, infants, like actual infants. You know, infants that rely on mommy and daddy for everything. You know, you got to change their diapers. You got to feed them and all that stuff. Infants don’t do anything by themselves because they can’t. You leave an infant — it’s not going to survive. The government thinks we’re infants, though. And we’re not. I’m 47, I was an infant a long time ago. Why am I bringing this up today? I was thinking about the monologue this week and I got to thinking, yes, government treats us like little children all the time.”
The federal government, over time, has unconstitutionally usurped so many powers from the states that it is now a leviathan government that intrudes into the daily lives of its citizens. We call the bureaucracy the “Deep State” and it has a life of its own. Our federal government was not supposed to be as big as it has gotten and after seeing what it did to President Donald Trump, the Deep State has shown that it has a life of its own, it answers to no one, and it acts like a separate being with the instincts of preserving itself over all other things.
The Unfiltered host continued, “And it’s not just an act, folks, of misfeasance. It’s an act of malfeasance. In other words, it’s not just that government’s not helping — it’s that it’s actively screwing up your life. Here’s the difference: Misfeasance is when someone falls in front of you on the sidewalk and you don’t help them up. That’s bad, right? You know what malfeasance is? They go to get up and you punch them in the face. See, that’s government. Folks, when the government makes a decision for you, whether about your healthcare, your education, your taxes, your money, where you can travel, what kind of car you can buy, you don’t make that decision yourself. That’s not misfeasance. It’s malfeasance. Because they stole from you — they stole from you the opportunity: the opportunity to make your own money, to make your own healthcare decisions, to choose where your kids go to school. They stole from you. That’s a thief. They’ve stolen from you.”
