Stacking the bureaucracies.
As a rule, getting rid of civil servants is like trying to rid your yard of bindweed, or your ex-stripper girlfriend of the Herpes. And if the left is going to find a way around representative democracy — which, let’s face it, is what they do in every instance where they can’t first win or steal elections — using the protections we grant to civil servants, then loading the bureaucracies with left-wing ideologues who will only hire their own, is the best way to create a bulwark against the will of the voter to change the balance of power in the government.
In short, the left has learned to use the bureaucratic state in much the same way they’ve learned to use the universities. And they are entrenching themselves while simultaneously creating a hive mind forever protected by a kind of tenure.
So have your little TEA Parties and pretend you still live in a semi-free society, proles. But you’re fooling yourselves. Herpes never really goes away: it just goes dormant from time to time, only to show up later, long after you’ve been fucked.
And here you thought it was radical Islamists who were the only ones actively attempting to use our own civic rules against us.
His vacations are a distraction for us to attend to. He’s got a busy bunch of termites doing the quiet stuff. He’s golfing and ginning up outrage as nothing more than a mere toss of red meat to the blog dogs. We bark and growl at the gates while he’s busy inside stealing the national treasure.
If the partisan bureaucrats are herpes, that would make the bureaux themselves the stripper girlfriend. I guess it’s time for all of us to quietly reflect on whether our girlfriends is so awesomely awesome that we’re willing to put up with her herpes.
Given that this girlfriend ain’t ever done shit for me besides max out my credit cards and interfere with every single fucking aspect of my life, I’m thinking I can cut her loose without crying too much.
Just another reason to strip the bureaucrats of their civil service protection, just before eliminating the most politicized offices.
Or we can all secede from WaDC en masse.
Simpler that way. As if we needed any of those bureaux outside of defense and treasury, and I’m not so sure about treasury.
Of Passive Secession and Men.
And the coffers run dry.
“Or we can all secede from WaDC en masse.”
The problem Jeff describes is unfortunately not just a federal problem, it extends clear to the local city level all across the land.
I’m afraid it’s going to take revolution to regain control of our government.
LBascom, mostly I think, it’s less a problem of institutions than one of human minds, so if there is to be a revolution . . .
Leftist lawyers hired: 76. Moderate, non-ideological, or conservative lawyers hired: 0.
Left wing lawyers must be so much better, just like left wing academics.
“mostly I think, it’s less a problem of institutions than one of human minds”
I’m not so sure of that. I think the institution of public employee unions is one of the main problems.
My thinking on that score is simply that a nearer adherence to the ideas we began with would have prevented the occurrence of the peu’s in the first place, so that a careful revolution (which in a sense is merely a recovery of mind anyhow) would see fit to reshape that and other troubling institutions, and that without that underlying revolution, such reshaping will be nearly impossible (not to say entirely, just much more difficult, and much less voluntary) in the final analysis.
Wait until we can adapt DRACO to eliminate bureaucrats.
Somewhere, Antonio Gramsci is smiling…