Dangerous speech

Host Obaid Omer and guest Bruce Pardy dig into government overreach. Bruce describes the root of the issue as the mandate itself. People object to the problem of overreach without recognizing that the government has been given the mandate to supervise us, he says. Did cohorts, in particular Gen X, who came of age during a time of high institutional trust, take their hands off the wheel and miss the institutional shifts that have led to rampant government overreach in education, health, and almost every aspect of today’s society? The notion of reform is challenging when institutional populations are hijacked by ideology and self-reliance has been eroded. ”We the people,” says Bruce. “Have to change the ideas in our heads.”