Overturning Chevron would be a start, but you've still got to remember that most federal judges in this country are Democratic appointees, and even the Republican appointees lean to the left. So while getting rid of the Chevron doctrine would make it a bit harder for executive agencies to get the courts to give their regulations the force of law, I still think they would win more often than not. Serious change, if it comes, will have to come through Congress - since at the end of the day, democracy only works if the elected officials themselves are willing to stand up for their rights.
A cogent assessment of one of our main problems today, one which, acting in parallel with the decline of American patriotism among the recent cohorts of college graduates, and other problems, may be our undoing. There is work to be done in the way of deep social analysis of this problem, seeking its fundamental causes. Note that it has been known for almost a century ... see, for example, 'The Bureaucratization of the World' (from an unlikely source): [ https://www.marxists.org/archive/rizzi/bureaucratisation/index.htm ].
Thanks for that reference - I haven't got around to reading that yet, but it seems that a lot of the sources I do follow have come to the same idea - that sometime in the early to mid-twentieth century, a great deal of political power in the Anglo-American world was transferred away from representative bodies (and especially local ones) and to large, opaque, nonaccountable bureaucracies. This is, IMHO at least, a bigger problem than "decline of American patriotism" among the youth - for the simple reason that if the youth stay patriotic, but their patriotism is oriented toward a system that doesn't represent the common man or care much what he thinks, then we're still doomed in the end.
If the Chevron decision goes the right way, congress will be forced to do its job.
Overturning Chevron would be a start, but you've still got to remember that most federal judges in this country are Democratic appointees, and even the Republican appointees lean to the left. So while getting rid of the Chevron doctrine would make it a bit harder for executive agencies to get the courts to give their regulations the force of law, I still think they would win more often than not. Serious change, if it comes, will have to come through Congress - since at the end of the day, democracy only works if the elected officials themselves are willing to stand up for their rights.
A cogent assessment of one of our main problems today, one which, acting in parallel with the decline of American patriotism among the recent cohorts of college graduates, and other problems, may be our undoing. There is work to be done in the way of deep social analysis of this problem, seeking its fundamental causes. Note that it has been known for almost a century ... see, for example, 'The Bureaucratization of the World' (from an unlikely source): [ https://www.marxists.org/archive/rizzi/bureaucratisation/index.htm ].
Doug,
Thanks for that reference - I haven't got around to reading that yet, but it seems that a lot of the sources I do follow have come to the same idea - that sometime in the early to mid-twentieth century, a great deal of political power in the Anglo-American world was transferred away from representative bodies (and especially local ones) and to large, opaque, nonaccountable bureaucracies. This is, IMHO at least, a bigger problem than "decline of American patriotism" among the youth - for the simple reason that if the youth stay patriotic, but their patriotism is oriented toward a system that doesn't represent the common man or care much what he thinks, then we're still doomed in the end.
Interesting and informative. Great read. Thanks