Fade Resistance Performance
What author Hilaire Belloc called The Servile State, in his 1912 works by the same name, we would come to accept as a mixed-economy, then a service-based economy, but first, we would have to buy in to it. The Roosevelt Administration would be anointed to sell it to the American People as "The New Deal".
For the American people to really accept such a concept like "The New Deal", the federal Government covertly controlled by the financial elite would require a National Emergency of Global proportion. This well scripted event would be historically documented as Black Tuesday. It would be the trigger of desolation known as the Historical Great Depression of the 1930's. The plan is well reflected in the collectivist notes of The Jekyll Island Hunt Club meeting of 1910 and their alleged Manifesto.
The New Deal brought fascist-style central planning to America, but to ultimately facilitate the plan, early in his second term, Roosevelt would try to "pack" the Court by increasing the number of seats. This power play alienated even many of his allies, but it turned out not to be necessary. After 1937 the Court began voting as Roosevelt wished; several members obligingly retired; and soon he had appointed a majority of the justices. The country virtually got a new Constitution.
Welcome to The New Deal...
Now, there is almost absolutely no limit on what the federal government could do. In effect, the powers of the federal government no longer had to come from the people by constitutional delegation, they could be created by simple political power. Roosevelt's Court decided that the Tenth Amendment was a "truism" of no real force. This meant that almost any federal act was ipso facto constitutional, and the powers "reserved" to the states and the people were just leftovers the federal government didn't want; so much like crumbs falling from the dinner table for the household pet to scarf upon.
Roosevelt also set the baneful precedent of using entitlement programs like Social Security, to purchase some people's votes with other people's money. It was both a profanely fatal corruption of our Constitution and the realization of the Servile State in America. The outlaw class of voting parasites has been swelling ever since.
The New Deal didn't just expand the power of the federal government like never before - it accomplished a much deeper mischief - it struck at the whole principle of constitutional resistance to federal expansion. Congress didn't need any constitutional amendment at all to increase its powers; it could increase its own powers ad hoc, unfettered, at any time, by simple majority vote.
All this, of course, would have seemed entirely horrific and monstrous to our ancestors. Even Alexander Hamilton, who favored a relatively strong central government in his time, would likely never have dreamed of a government so powerful in a nation defined by Freedom.
The Court suffered a bloody defeat at Roosevelt's hands, and since his time it has never found a major act of Congress unconstitutional. This has allowed the power of the federal government to grow incessantly and without restraint. At the federal level, the "checks and balances", as intended by the Constitution, has now ceased to include judicial review.
This becomes a startling fact, then, flying as it does in the face of the familiar conservative complaints about the Court's "activism". When it comes to Congress, the Court has been absolutely passive. As if to compensate for its habit of capitulation to Congress, the Court's "activism" has been directed entirely against the States since around 1945.
For more than 50 years, the Supreme Court of the United States of America, time after time, has struck down laws as "unconstitutional" in areas that used to be considered the States settled and exclusive provinces, laws whose legitimacy had stood unquestioned throughout the history of the Republic.
The Government Deity...