Remember last year when a federal judge ruled that the CDC had exceeded its authority with the mandate that every air traveler were a mask? When passengers heard that, they joyously took off the stupid things.
Ah, but the feds don’t want to relinquish that power. The government has appealed the ruling to the Eleventh Circuit. Ian Miller writes about the battle in this piece posted by the Brownstone Institute. Referring to the CDC “experts,” he writes, “They refuse to admit they were wrong, and so instead of learning from their overreach and repeated failures, they’re desperately clawing to retain powers they never had.”
Of course. That’s how control freaks are, and such people are drawn to government bureaucracies like iron filings to a magnet.
This is a replay of the old Brezhnev Doctrine, which said that once a nation had fallen into the Soviet orbit, it could never go back. The arc of history must always go toward greater government control, never reversing. That mentality is just as alive in Washington, D.C., in 2023 as it was in the Kremlin in 1968.
Let us hope that the Eleventh Circuit upholds the ruling against the mask mandate, but then the long-run task is to chop away at the vast administrative state that arrogantly insists on micromanaging our lives.
Hat tip: Don Boudreaux