Will it take decades to end the corruption in politics and government?
You have to drastically cut back Fedzilla.
Give the work to the States.
That way, it takes a lot more lobbyist money to buy all the reps in the 52 States
It will never be drained as long as it is being fed through the education and media, I’m sad to say. Clean water has to be flushed through them.
Wrong.
Machievelli said discard the swamp immediately and quickly. Then the people are forgiving.
Drag the chopping out for years, and the people will hate you.
But likely Trump agent is saying the opposite to let the opponent’s guard down so the swamp fights less.
It only takes a week to drain. Month max.
Yep.
I kept trying to tell people impatient with Trump: A president appoints about 2,000 people initially (judges continue to be appointed). The DOJ ALONE is 50,000 employees.
So the appointments you’re going to have in DOJ are going to magically transform the other 49,950? I don’t care what position of power they are in, it’s a very long term process and involves changing a mind set.
On top of that conservatives have been hostile to gubment for decades, choosing not to work there. Well . . . .
It all comes around. Now, of all those Trump DOES appoint, how many are die-hard Trumpers? Percentage wise it cannot be many. There just aren’t that many who have been involved in politics enough to know the system, how to get ANYTHING done (let alone what Trump wants done). So you inevitably end up with a lot of swamp creatures.
Think of Patton in Germany after the surrender. Who did he hire to run the power plants, the water plants? The Nazis. Why? They were the only ones who actually knew how to run anything cuz they had run it for the last 15 years.
It can be done with a dedicated, relentless approach. I think one thing Trump is doing that is key is he is just not replacing many of these positions at all. He is draining by omission. Slowly, he’ll get his own people in, but say he’s re-elected, it’s still going to be a long term process, made worse by the fact that non-swamp people HATE Washington and don’t want to/can’t stay there very long.
The unspoken truth is that Bannon himself was not cut out for gubment work and wasn’t a good fit. He knew he was never going to be there very long.
Look at Reagan’s first chief of staff-—his best, Judge William Clark. He left after a year.
But just because something is hard doesn’t mean you don’t do it. This war can be won, but not in one little battle.
It will never be truly cleaned up - been so tainted over the last 40 or more years that it would take several decades and we're not likely to have folks like Trump there for the necessary stamina and will to do it.
Washington is loaded with self serving apparatchiks. Their only interest is making money, and digging in to the body politic. They are human ticks.