Coyote Blog comments on the phenomenon whereby politicians of one party or the other create an institution that seems wonderful to them -- until the other party gains control.
I am reminded of all this because the technocrats that built our regulatory state are starting to see the danger of what they created. A public school system was great as long as it was teaching the right things and its indoctrinational excesses were in a leftish direction. Now, however, we can see the panic. The left is freaked that some red state school districts may start teaching creationism or intelligent design. And you can hear the lament - how did we let Bush and these conservative idiots take control of the beautiful machine we built? My answer is that you shouldn't have built the machine in the first place - it always falls into the wrong hands. Maybe its time for me to again invite the left to reconsider school choice.
Read the whole thing. He also mentions the FDA decision to disallow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill. The lust for power is too great to convince modern politicians that they'd be better off removing control from these institutions rather than constantly expanding them.
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