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Once upon a time, civil service was a higher calling. As JFK so famously said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Families didn’t get rich by having one member be a politician. Men sacrificed riches to serve a higher cause. Public service, it was once called.
Greedy corrupt politicians who twist government service to their personal benefit were once the exception. Caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they were prosecuted, or at least run out of town in shame. Today five of the richest counties in the US surround the federal government in DC. Running for any office costs millions. The 2024 Democrats spent in excess of a billion dollars on the presidential race and lost.
Most major politicians become multimillionaires in office, or soon after they leave. The Obamas entered the national political scene a moderate upper-middle-class family. Today they own multiple multi-million dollar estates in ultra-exclusive neighborhoods around the country and have more money than they can ever spend. Politics is all about the Benjamins.
With the blatant opportunism that political or government service represents today, is it any wonder that ambitious self-serving people now populate a bloated federal government that spends every penny we give it and borrows a crippling amount more. That they voted to double the size of the IRS to squeeze more money from citizens, says it all.
The approval rating of Congress falls somewhere between snakes and cockroaches. The leaders of both parties defend the corrupt status quo with a wink and a nod. Make no mistake, they know the public doesn’t want or approve of what they are doing. But they don’t care. Government insiders don’t have to care. The game is rigged. Like the landed aristocrats of the past who owned everything, the elites have circled their wagons to fend off the savages at the gates.
Walled off from the American citizens like a cancerous tumor, the government metastasized into a sprawling leviathan that finally burst outward, extending its tentacles into the private sector where it could enact totalitarian programs of censorship and oppression outside of Constitutional restraints.
Whenever higher-minded individuals (although that bar has gotten pretty low) enter government service with an eye toward reform, they soon find out where government priorities lie. For Congress, the fundraising demands start with orientation. All committee assignments come with a price tag. A parade of lobbyists grease palms with ready cash and promise cushy corporate board positions or grossly overpaid speaking engagements for those with the right stuff. Money, sex, and power make for an intoxicating mix.
Those who don’t play don’t stay. Without the backing of leadership and the campaign funding they control, getting re-elected is tough sledding. All it takes is the timely release of a phony rumor to tank someone’s career. Those currently in power have taken to prosecuting and persecuting critics who dare to challenge their stranglehold on the reins of power.
Career civil servants bury themselves in the bureaucracy like Carolina ticks. A hundred well-funded unions protect them from accountability. Production is not required, only the spending of all allocations so that more can be obtained. Six percent of the federal crew come to the office full time, and many show up only once a month to maintain their status. Everyone has health and retirement benefits that would befit a king. Like most bureaucrats, their sharply honed skills include passing the buck, and looking busy while doing nothing. Expecting reform from the nameless and faceless would be folly.
Once there was an idea of the outsider who could ride into town and bring the sweeping changes needed. The change candidate always has the advantage come election time. But the bureaucracy has bulwarks against any attempted reform. Incessant lawfare blocks every move. Radical judges issue stays on good policy and cases bog in the courts. Bureaucrats drag their feet or outright defy orders. The leadership, many octogenarians who by definition are averse to change, dig in like turtles in mud. Layered over all the government is a sprawling intelligence and foreign policy complex that controls major media and social media to blanket and smother dissent. The intel agencies continuously collect damaging information and selectively leak it to a willing press who harass any reformer like a swarm of locusts. Manufacturing scandal is always an option. In this environment, there is no possibility of accomplishing anything within the DC universe.
The only place where anything effective gets done is outside of government. Elon Musk changed the course of free speech by buying Twitter and turning it into X. Independent podcasters reveal data that otherwise would never be seen. The cable news channels, known regime mouthpieces, are tanking. On a recent day, MSNBC managed an average of only 38,000 viewers. Every Joe Rogan podcast has over 10 million listeners. Tucker Carlson interviews heads of state. The mere sight of RFK is enough to frighten Big Pharma, Big Med and Big Agro. Outsiders rule.
Political activist Scott Pressler nearly single-handedly flipped whole states red. Since he began a decade ago, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point operation has made good on the name, turning back the leftist tide on college campuses. James O’Keefe burrows into the government with his undercover reporters revealing the corruption of the swamp. The case could be made that Donald Trump has become much more powerful while outside of government. Steve Bannon has mobilized millions and strikes fear into politicians who end up in his crosshairs. All these outsiders are effective despite the full force of a massive government assault on them that includes criminal lawfare, civil lawfare, imprisonment, a media onslaught, and chattering Hollywood luminaries and academics.
Guerrilla warfare eventually did away with the perfectly orchestrated lines and impeccably dressed armies of the past. Today the outsiders represent the guerrilla troops in the information war. And they are winning.
