The Deep State Consists of Every Progressive
Progressive legislators, executives, judges, and administrators must be deprived of their administrative states and government-employment privileges. Progressive cronies must be denied influence.
“Progressive” is the brand identity that socialists have used effectively in the USA to get socialist politicians elected and get socialist policies operating.
Progressives, like all socialists, support placing all human action under political control by governments.
Limiting political control by governments is the purpose of the Constitution’s key rules and sanctions. The key rules call for each government person to keep himself inside his own boundaries. The sanctions require each government person to keep other government people inside their own boundaries.
Progressive Structures
Progressive politicians create and operate a system that confuses the fact that they remain in ultimate control and are breathtakingly corrupt. This system of wizardry is the administrative state. The administrative state is Progressive political actors’ get-out-of-responsibility-free card.
The administrative state consists of departments, agencies, and government-chartered organizations. Each of these defend against the Constitution’s sanctions by going on offense, blatantly defying the Constitution’s rules that create requirements for governments’ structures.
Many of the administrative state’s component organizations exercise unlimited, unenumerated powers. They unconstitutionally exercise legislative powers that are vested solely in congresses. They exercise executive powers under the unconstitutional oversight of congresses. They unconstitutionally exercise judicial powers that are vested solely in the judicial branch. They unconstitutionally don’t exercise offsetting powers to limit others in governments.
Progressive Individuals
Progressives in government not only collectively operate the unconstitutional administrative state but also individually defy the Constitution. Progressive legislators, executives, judges, and administrators don’t use their constitutional powers to limit others in governments, which brazenly violates their oaths of office.
Progressive congresspeople don’t use their powers to pass rules of engagement, declare war, draft and revise treaties, and decide tariffs. They do grab executive powers to organize operations, set line-item budgets, dictate who gets hired, and oversee operations.
Progressive presidents accept the legislative power to enact rules of engagement. They accept life-and-death legislative power when they command troops in war without war declarations. They accept the legislative powers to draft and revise treaties and to decide tariffs. They don’t rebuff legislative grabs of their executive powers to organize operations, set line-item budgets, hire employees, and manage operations.
Power Wielded
A person’s actions to defy the Constitution’s limits, and a person’s support for such actions, are the measures of the force of that person’s Progressivism.
The true Deep State consists of all Progressives:
- The Progressives in government who wield the most power, including all Democrats and the 70% of Republicans who are less than 80% pro-liberty, are the Progressive congresspeople. Legislators’ constitutional power to pass law is greater than executives’ constitutional power to execute law, which is greater than judges’ constitutional power to opine on cases. As noted, Progressive congresspeople unconstitutionally create, organize, fund, and oversee the unconstitutional administrative state.
- The Progressives in government who wield the next-most power are the Progressive presidents. As noted, Progressive presidents unconstitutionally accept the legislatures’ powers over war, treaties, and tariffs, and Progressive presidents unconstitutionally don’t limit the administrative state but instead market the administrative state.
- The Progressives in government who wield the next-most power after that are the Progressive judges. Progressive judges narrowly tailor opinions to avoid broadly limiting the administrative state and the Progressive politicians.
- The Progressives in government who wield the next-most power after that are the Progressive administrators. As noted, Progressive administrators unconstitutionally legislate, unconstitutionally execute under Progressive congresspeople’s direction, and unconstitutionally judge.
- The Progressives in government who wield the least power are the Progressive state-government people. Constitutionally they have the most scope for action, and in practice they have the most police and the most other employees. But instead, these Progressives submit.
- The Progressives outside government who exercise the most influence are the many activist cronies and business cronies.
Curing the Cancer
Personnel is control. All Progressive government organizations must be closed and repealed, and vigilance must be kept up through broken-windows policing.
All Progressives in all governments must be rooted out. All Progressives outside governments must be denied any openings to influence any people in any governments.
Freedom is conceptually simple. But freedom demands follow-through.
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OC Maker
This is a fascinating and stark perspective. While I understand the argument about limiting government overreach, I think the characterization of “every progressive” as part of a monolithic “deep state” is overly broad. Many people support progressive policies out of a genuine desire for social equity, not a wish for total political control. It’s important to remember that complex political systems are made of individuals with diverse motivations. Speaking of creating diverse individuals, when I need to flesh out characters for a story, I often use a free original character generator to explore different backgrounds and motivations. It helps me remember that people, even fictional ones, are rarely defined by a single label.
James Anthony
Thank you for describing your reaction. People who support administrative governments do differ in their understanding and motivation.
The issue for everybody, though, isn’t those supporters’ intentions. The issue is what effects their support has on everybody’s lives.
Progressivism is socialism, just like communism is socialism.
Supporters of socialism harm everybody by preventing people from cooperating with and competing with one another freely. This makes everybody financially poorer than they otherwise would be, which causes political instability. People being people, many supporters can’t even see the harm their support is causing others; they unconsciously filter out various observations that people who don’t support socialism can see plain as day. And their support creates the path that killers repeatedly have taken to gain power. In Communist Russia, Nazi Germany, and Communist China, many early leaders ended up killed by paranoid, sadistic, psychopathic leaders, and then tens of millions of others were soon also killed.
It’s nice when people desire the best for themselves and for others. Most people do, and most people act on those desires. We need to be clear, though, that people who think that the best comes from controlling others through Progressivism are highly-dangerously wrong. They need to be kept from power or removed from power in every case, unless and until they learn that freedom is the only moral alternative, that freedom works in practice, and that freedom can only be preserved and increased when people use their powers against others in governments and against cronies to limit them.
HumanizeKit
The concept of institutional capture is worth examining regardless of political perspective. When bureaucratic structures grow beyond accountability, the question becomes how to maintain democratic oversight without dismantling necessary expertise. This is a nuanced topic that deserves thoughtful debate.
James Anthony
Thank you for speaking up and describing your perspective. I see things differently in several ways.
The term institutional capture implies that administrative-state subdivisions are initially designed to serve the public interest, they initially do, but they later succumb to influence from cronies. This is wrong. Each is created through lobbying by concentrated special interests who aren’t effectively opposed by the decentralized public who will be called on to pay the price. The activists want to be paid from inside governments to advance their causes or mercantile interests and want to use the force of law to advance these interests, and they are able to do both. I’ve sometimes evoked this state of affairs by referring to the administrative state as a combination of activist-crony socialism and business-crony socialism.
Socialism Kills Freedom:
https://rconstitution .us/socialism-kills-freedom/#3
The term democratic oversight implies that legislative management of these executive subdivisions is legal and helpful. It is neither of these things. It violates the Constitution’s executive vesting clause and legislative vesting clause. Further, it’s a corruption of both the legislators’ role and the executive’s role. Legislators’ role is to pass rules and sanctions that apply to everybody. The executive’s is to allocate, manage, and carry out the enforcement of whichever of these statutes are legitimate. When there’s legislative oversight, legislators and executives both agree to let rules and sanctions be enacted by unelected administrators.
The term necessary expertise states that government people are experts in various actions that people take to add value. Government people are not experts in adding value that customers are willing to buy voluntarily. Government people are only experts in using political processes to increase control over others. Free people who take action voluntarily regulate themseleves excellently, using the services of consultants, insurers, producers, all controlled by customers’ buying choices.
Repeal Government Regulators. Improve Safety and Quality, End Inflation:
https://www.lewrockwell .com/2024/10/james-anthony/repeal-government-regulators-improve-safety-and-quality-end-inflation/
Prevent Future Losses Like East Palestine by Reducing Regulation and Empowering Torts:
https://mises .org/wire/prevent-future-losses-east-palestine-reducing-regulation-and-empowering-torts
Boeing 737 MAX Disasters’ Root Cause Was Government Regulation (Extended Version):
https://rconstitution .us/boeing-737-max-disasters-root-cause-was-government-regulation-extended-version/
ParseJet
Excellent post! The way you’ve presented this topic makes it very engaging and accessible. Definitely bookmarking this for reference.
Home Calc
The point about the administrative state acting as a “get-out-of-responsibility-free card” is a powerful metaphor. It frames the debate not just about policy, but about accountability and the intended structure of government. That structural perspective is what often gets lost in daily political noise.
James Anthony
Thanks!
All that governments can do right is help secure our life, liberty, and property.
To go further and make things better, we have to work out solutions ourselves, as workers, savers, investors, entrepreneurs, producers, and above all, customers.
Miles Ramos
This is a strong statement. I’m curious, how do you define “deep state” and “progressive” in this context to include *every* progressive? Could you elaborate on the specific criteria?
Noah Bennett
This is a provocative assertion. Could you elaborate on what specific actions or beliefs within progressive thought contribute to forming this “deep state” structure? I’m curious about your working definition here.
Kennedy Boyd
This is a really thought-provoking perspective. If the “deep state” consists of every progressive, are you implying their shared values and positions inadvertently create this system, rather than any centralized conspiracy? How does that dynamic differ from just widespread political influence?
James Anthony
I’m not at all suggesting that Progressivism is spontaneous order.
It was Progressive leaders who created, for instance –
– the claim that governments should be run by experts
– administrative agencies
– the language used to sell their ideas to the public
– the shift from partisan media to so-called objectivity in media
– the shift from caucuses to primaries
The only thing decentralized about this is confusion.
Most people either don’t read and interpret the Constitution for themselves, or do start out doing this but experience severe cognitive dissonance when comparing its rules to our government people’s actions and just move on to more-satisfying actions. As a result, most people aren’t clear that Progressivism is to its core against the Constitution and freedom.
My goals were just to explain what Progressivism is, and make clear that every single person who supports this tyranny must be kept out of governments.