Op-Ed: Government Opacity. By Brent Regan, Chair Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (12/26/24)

Brent Regan pulls no punches in a scathing op-ed about the recent federal Congressional Concurrent Resolutions (CRs) — one defeated, one passed, both exorbitantly expensive and expansive. And, like all CRs have been for decades, they were written dishonestly and designed for maximum opacity.

From the introduction…

Much of what our government does is designed to hide the truth. The bureaucrats, lobbyists and lawyers that actually run the government act as if they don’t want you to see or know how they are performing, by design. I say “design” because if the true goal was transparency then we would see the system evolve towards that goal. But we don’t see that. What we do see is repeated behaviors that are specifically engineered to hide the truth.

From the final paragraphs…

… Elon Musk bought Twitter, which triggered the release of the Twitter Files, which exposed the web of censorship and manipulation of the news. It exposed the inner working of the propaganda engine and the hypnotic spell was broken.

The 1,500 page Continuing Resolution failed because of democracy. Through X, millions of people became aware of the scam minutes after it was presented. Switchboards and emails lit up with citizens expressing their distain and representatives reacted accordingly. The CR was dead and democracy killed it.

Don’t miss the sandwich paragraphs in between. They’re well worth your time (and the article isn’t lengthy).