Decades of Decadence by Marco Rubio

Author:Marco Rubio
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Purpose of Politics

In the modern Republican Party, it’s easy to assume that more government is always the wrong answer. Reading this chapter, you might have gotten the impression that I always agree with that assumption. But I don’t. While I do believe that the government in the United States has become far too big and not accountable enough to the voters—especially when it relies on unelected experts to make decisions, rather than representatives who were elevated to power by the people—I do see a role for good government. Any sensible elected official should.

Since the founding of this nation, the United States of America has become the most prosperous nation because of deliberate decisions made by people in government—decisions that were made by statesmen and a virtuous citizenry that participated, sacrificed, and cooperated with one another. Some of the most dramatic improvements in technology and life came precisely because of early government investment, further developed by innovative companies that saw a market opportunity to make life better in America. What is alarming about the last thirty years is that our policymakers have forgotten many of the critical policy lessons that made America strong. Our business leaders have stopped caring about America. And our citizenry has become jaded about participation, divided against itself, and—especially among our elites—more concerned about their own personal success than the success of the nation.

When people disengage, it gives room for the experts to run wild. It sets up a permission structure for the experts, who have spent their entire lives studying one narrow field, to begin making decisions that have vast implications far beyond their field of study and with real impacts on how people truly lead their lives.

To these “smart people,” politics is a dirty word. It is a messy, chaotic process that does not lead to good outcomes. Why trust the popular opinion of the unwashed masses when people with multiple Ivy League degrees and countless peer-reviewed journal articles can take the wheel? Between their expertise and the wisdom of the market, nothing can go wrong. After all, “history is over.”

But history is not over, and we need politics. To engage successfully in politics, we need a theory of the case. We need to be able to articulate what we will do with power once we get it.

The left has no trouble answering this question. Their party has been taken over by Marxists who have a clear vision of exactly what they will do when they get power. They will tear down the institutions that have made America strong. They will teach our children that the United States is a racist place, and that the traditional path to the American Dream—working hard, living responsibly, and passing along a better future to one’s children—is nothing more than a form of white supremacy. Rather than supporting communities and governing by the will of the people, they will continue to allow groups of unelected experts complete control of our civilization.

On the right, we tend to fall back

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