Posted on 03/19/2024 5:23:09 AM PDT by Jim Noble
As America closes in on a major election, mistrust is brewing around the mysterious government entity that’s now denounced in scary-sounding terms — “the deep state” and “the swamp.” What do those words even mean? Who exactly do they describe?
We went on a road trip to find out. As we met the Americans who are being dismissed as public enemies, we discovered that they are … us. They like Taylor Swift. They dance bachata. They go to bed at night watching “Star Trek” reruns. They go to work and do their jobs: saving us from Armageddon.
Sure, our tax dollars pay them, but as you’ll see in the video above, what a return on our investment we get!
When we hear “deep state,” instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us. These are the Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible, it makes our lives better...
But if Donald Trump is re-elected and enacts Schedule F, that could change. He would have the power to eviscerate the so-called deep state and replace our public servants with people who work for him, not us.
In the video above, you’ll meet a few of our hard-working American public servants, and we hope you’ll agree that they’re not scary at all. In fact, they’re kind of awesome.
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Donald Trump did not fight the Deep State during his first term. He did not even put Hillary in prison, though we all know she is guilty as sin. Therefore I will be pleasantly surprised if he fights the Deep State in his second term.
The Deep State is to a great extent the result of the creation of the US Federal Civil Service back in 1871.
Compared to the old “Spoils System”, it protects Federal employees from being summarily fired when a new President takes office, but it also means that some employees are able (perhaps surreptitiously) to carry over policies of the previous administration which are not policies of the new administration.
Since then, of course, benefits and protections have been increased, making it even harder to reverse government expansion than would be implied by the natural tendency of organizations to grow.
Terrible article. Intentionally missing the point of corrupt intelligence agencies.
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