Oh, how I’d love to see something like that erupt here in Austria—but let’s not kid ourselves, the odds are laughable. Austrians have slogged through war, famine, and bureaucratic absurdity with barely a murmur; obedience is baked into the national character, likely a leftover from centuries of imperial conditioning. But it’s not just us—Europe’s got the same sickness. The administrative state is a self-replicating organism, reinforced by academic elites who are about as in touch with everyday life as a Martian botanist. The U.S. founding fathers had the clever idea to pay lawmakers per session day, thinking it would keep them grounded and among the people. Nice thought. Utterly futile. The deep state doesn’t need per diems—it has permanence.
