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Just Because
You’re Paranoid…
By Kate Burch
We read these days about the “conspiracy theorists” claiming falsely
that there exists a “deep state” composed mostly of Obama
administration holdovers who are busily undermining the attempts of the
Trump administration to realize its goals. According to the
pundits, who are hand-in-glove with the “resistance,” all
right-thinking people are outraged by the “illegitimate” election
results and hate Donald Trump, and those people who were beguiled by
Trump’s message are rapidly and regretfully getting their minds
right. This even when, as in a recent piece in the Washington
Post, the same article can state those opinions and also cite polling
data indicating that, were the election held today, Donald Trump would
best Hillary Clinton in the popular vote. We see the spectacle of
the Head of the Democratic National Committee, speaking to a crowd,
using scatological language to describe the President and his
policies. Hollywood types openly rant about their fantasies of
blowing up the White House—speech that would get an FBI case opened on
most people. Unseemly, at best.
Truth is, there really is a “deep” administrative state that has
mobilized to resist and derail the new administration and its
initiatives. No matter what the President does, these people,
abetted by the major media, will find a way to make it an impeachable
offense. The President’s firing of the disgraced FBI Director,
James Comey, is an example. The Democrats and the media have
swung full circle from hating James Comey because he purportedly caused
Hillary Clinton to be defeated, to being his champion and crying that
he was fired because he was getting close to exposing the President as
a tool of the Russians. Funny how the Democrats and the media
recently loved the Russians, too. Madness!
The federal bureaucracy includes many who have joined the “resistance,”
and are busily engaged in doing all they can devise to impede the
agenda of the new administration. Sally Yates’ hijinks are an
example. Another is the protests by hundreds of EPA employees
against the confirmation of Scott Pruitt as the new EPA head.
After all, his stated goal was to scale down the scope and power of the
agency. Illegal leaking of information that led to the firing of
Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor shows that employees of the
U.S. Intelligence community are up to their eyebrows in political
activity. Unacceptable!
One major problem lending to this unfortunate and very dangerous
situation is the entrenched nature of the Civil Service. There
are well over four million individuals under the Civil Service,
including civilians and military personnel. Civil servants are
currently almost totally immune from being fired or demoted. This
makes them relatively independent of the elected officials whom they
are supposed to serve, making it possible for those so inclined because
of their political views to sabotage, subvert and obstruct the policies
and agenda of those whom the people have chosen to lead.
Incompetent civil servants are ensconced forever, and the freedom of
the public unions from the constraints of competition gives them
salaries and benefits far in excess of comparable employees in the
private sector and increases greatly the cost of government.
It is past time for reform of this system that allows disgruntled
political partisans to thwart the electoral process and hurt our
pocketbooks, besides.
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