Shedding Light on the Shadow Government

Since Barack had been in office, he was increasingly finding that he was no longer speaking with anyone he knew. The people who had been at these desks (people who had become his friends) for years had just up and vanished. My curiosity was piqued, and I asked for clarification. He continued, "All the familiar voices I had known were suddenly gone. They had been replaced with new names, new voices, who had no visible history dealing with that office's/bureau's business. 

They are people with no past or credential I've ever heard of. It's really quite frightening as I have been watching our president conducting an invisible and unannounced overhaul of our government. And the changes he's making are happening silently and without the knowledge of the American people!" I was just a fledgling writer at the time, not that wildly concerned about governmental matters. But I remembered those comments and their disquieting effect. When the term "shadow government" finally hit home with me, and then with the advent of Puppet Biden, it all began to add up.

Through the years since that conversation, I have made it a point to learn more regarding our constitutional republic. And I have acquired a great appreciation/respect for our government which was initially created to be a citizen powered, user-friendly organism run, " ... by and for America's people"! Yet every day it becomes increasingly evident that the American people are kept distracted and out of our government, abdicating their responsibility to oversee and protect our personal freedoms. More and more, I'm discovering, so many of our fellow Americans are sacrificing their personal freedoms and critical thinking in exchange for the illusion of care and camaraderie they feel as they surrender their brains, riveted before a newly erected idol of boundless entertainment and leftist propaganda (tv, internet, general fear, etc.). The powers that were so carefully allocated among the three branches of government have been consolidated into a ruling bureaucracy that is not elected and is indeed almost invisible and anonymous--and clearly under the baton of the silent, invisible chief exec behind our current poseur "chief exec". "We The People" need to step up and take back our government. As Thomas Jefferson so wisely said: "We need to be governed by a well-informed voting public" (Not liberal-media brainwashed victims of Biden's propaganda team.).

Like it or not, our freedoms and self-governance have been surreptitiously taken from us. The 'shadow government' that Donald Trump has been warning us about is a very real threat to what is left of a severely wounded and limping America. The self-proclaimed "constitutional scholar", Barack Obama, craftily built his own robot bureaucracy complete with his own back doors/hacks and even a poseur president, creating an America which he can control and market as he pleases. All of that treachery has generally evaded our sight as we have abandoned the responsibility of protecting what the framers so carefully gave to us just two and a half centuries ago.

This transfer of power has become even more apparent since the U.S. Supreme Court heard and decided the Chevron case (Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc..). That case, in a nutshell, held that a government agency could interpret a statute if the statute was deemed ambiguous and the interpretation was "reasonable". The opinion set out a standard, or test, to apply. At the time it was decided it did not receive a lot of attention or criticism but it has been HEAVILY leaned on and often cited as a backdoor way to concentrate power in the hands of non-elected bureaucrats who will do their masters' bidding. In other words, Marxist rule--discovering it could not easily come in through the front door--created a crack by which that could happen wholly apart from our observation or approval.

With the advent of the Chevron doctrine, it occurred to me that our highest court was deferring to the dictatorial agencies who will shortly become the intermediaries of our dying nation's emerging leftist government. Using a downright evil, crafty subtlety, 'we the people' are being taken out of the loop of involvement with our governance.

But suddenly a glimmer of hope may be appearing. The Supreme Court accepted and has heard arguments on two cases that challenge the Chevron doctrine--and the heavy-handed power that the Chevron doctrine gives to federal agencies. Those cases are Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce. Keep your eyes on what is developing regarding these cases.

It is possible that as more light is being shed on this power shift to what has rightly been described as a "shadow government". But lights can be dimmed or even turned off. The U.S. Supreme Court is under great criticism and attack by our current administration. There are several percolating criticisms, and advocacy for removal of justices or expansion of the court by stacking it with additional justices appointed by the current authority. That will help decisions to go the way the leftists want.

It is our sacred duty to keep the light of liberty and truth shining. The price of freedom? Eternal vigilance, prayer, paying attention, and voting while we are still free to do so.