Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1944, warned about the rise of the bureaucratic state. Alas, too late. It has risen in Europe under communism, Nazism, and fascism. It had arisen in the US under Wilson and perfected under FDR. Progress, inevitable reaction to Enlightened individualism, as the Rousseauian contradiction of freedom from society under the authority of the state.
In this video, it results in millions of little kings each making new laws. The solution given is to force the legislature to follow the Constitution and not delegate lawmaking to the administrative state, and for citizens to vote for who represents us.
Either way, under democracy, even representative, we end up with short-sighted, high time preference, corrupt little kings who have no stake in the game and are eager to sell out to the highest bidders. At least kings, before they became absolute monarchs who no longer follwed the law, had stake in the game in their reputations and their family and their kingdoms and their heritage, and thus longer-sighted, lower time preference.
But I digress from the video...
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwmUH5AGydQ)