Cracks in a Towering Façade: A Presumption of Authority

 

The façade that has been built to towering heights around the concept of government that’s taken over a hundred years to build into a solid, impervious wall, is starting to crack. The theory is that public servants, a title they’ve been desperate to shed for decades, do the work that those busy making a living and paying taxes can’t or won’t do suggests that they work at the pleasure of private citizens and businesses. Since about the turn of the 20th Century, that hasn’t been the case. Slowly, these clerks and such that have traditionally been in place explain the process of how to move bids and the people’s business through the system have transitioned into a hostile enforcement arm of the government. Now, they come out of their holes, like groundhogs, every few months and spout the “new rules” of doing business, not just with the town, county, state or federal government, but between businesses and private citizens.

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