You write that conservatives want to dismantle the administrative state as if that is obviously intrinsically absurd and evil. In fact, the administrative state has been found by the Supreme Court to be substantially unconstitutional, as many scholars have maintained for decades. You need to get outside your bubble, my friend. Speaking of the Constitution, you seem to be advocating criminal penalties for opinions and speech you and your fellow travelers find distasteful or inconvenient. That is a bizarre position in an essay supposedly about preserving liberty.

Much of your rhetoric is self-refuting. If all the federal workforce bloat is so essential, why has our educational system declined so precipitously…declining test scores, loss of proficiency in core skills, declining IQs….in inverse proportion to the number of taxpayer-funded employees overseeing it and the amount of money being spent? It is also embarrassing (and, frankly, insulting to your readers who haven’t their skulls hollowed out by climate change hysteria propaganda) to assert that a single heat wave can be attributed to “pollution.” That’s bad science, pure speculation and confirmation bias. And this: “Most observers agree we have precious little time left to change; others are certain collapse is unavoidable” is the same fact-free fear-mongering we have been hearing all along while climate model after climate model has proven wrong. Are you really so gullible that you believe this stuff, or are you deliberately trying to mislead others? This year in particular the climate change doomsayers have reluctantly conceded that the data, the science and reality doesn’t support their theories. And yet you still wrote this. I remember you as being rational and analytical. What happened to you?

There has been no response from Bobo, and with any luck, I won’t have to deal with him again.