you're talking mostly there about bloat, and that's an issue. but the whale below the lifeboat that that bureaucrats promote and defend the interests of the bureaucracy uber alles, within a permissive environment. I've watched as electeds, good ones who should know better, show them the same deference as taxpayers.Oldbear83 said:Oooohhhh, but it's worse than that.bear2be2 said:When you look at the net worth of these career politicians, many of which have never done anything substantive in the private sector, it's sickening.Oldbear83 said:Won't matter unless you add a requirement that when leaving office, these guys cannot become lobbyists themselves.Rawhide said:Yep, I agree with this. A song about Washington DC caring more about themselves and their power and little to nothing of the country or American people.bear2be2 said:The song was never a Republican/MAGA anthem. It was about politicians -- all politicians -- ****ting on the working man.whiterock said:LOL the guy sings a little-guy anthem that sets MAGA aroar and furrows dismissive brows on the View but oh, no....he's not in a political box.bear2be2 said:
I'm not sure why you clowns keep bringing up Biden in relation to me or my posts. I'm not a fan or defender of Joe Biden. He's a **** president just like most of the others in my lifetime -- and like those others, he could give two ****s about those he's "serving."
I understand it's difficult for partisan hacks to think outside of a binary system, but I despise most politicians -- on your team and the other.
That's why I like Oliver Anthony ... and his refusal to be put in a political box. He understands that none of these crooks are worth the time or energy that partisan hacks spend propping up and defending them. They're all screwing us and selling us out, and they benefit each and every time those they're stepping on make poor saps who happen to disagree with them ideologically the enemy because it takes the spotlight off them and their obvious flaws/hypocrisy.
Who controls cultural hegemony, B2? Listen to the narratives in all forms of media....is it the left or the right who sets the parameters for political correctness? Who are corporate elites pandering to? Who's getting cancelled and not? To the extent there is a "uniparty," who's on the inside and outside?
That some of y'all convinced yourselves he was only talking about the other team is your problem. But the politicians on your side arose from and swim in the exact same ooze as the Democrats -- and they serve the exact same masters: corporate interests and themselves.
The sooner people on all sides of the political aisle realize this, and start viewing their own politicians with the same critical eye, the sooner they'll find that hegemony/hypocrisy doesn't have a party affiliation. It's a required -- and too often rewarded -- trait of all American politicians.
And reflexive tribal responses to/defenses of that hypocrisy are the mortar that keeps a government that grows more unrepresentative, dysfunctional and corrupt by the year standing strong.
The problem isn't just with politicians, but also lies with the administrative state and all those alphabet organizations.
It blows my mind that you can have an agency like the EPA, HUD, FCC, FDA, CDC, etc... issue edicts that are then treated like law. A law that wasn't crafted, debated over and vote on by the people we send to D.C. to you know, debate and vote on stuff.
These agencies or departments or committees or what the hell ever should only be allowed to issue recommendations. Then our elected "leaders" should look at those recommendations and decide whether to debate it and write a new law - you know, their JOB. Hell, I know they have enough time and not over-worked, they all have time to live on twitter, write books, make television appearances, go on Ukraine tours and travel to Epstein island.
I'll add... it's far past time for the states to hold a Convention of the States under Article V of the constitution and force term limits down the throats of those rich men north of Richmond... we know they'll NEVER force it upon themselves.
And we continue to defend the actions of the filthy rich men and women on our sides of the aisle to our own -- and our country's -- detriment. Get profiteering out of politics and you'll attract more public servants who come in, represent their constituents for a term or two and pass the torch to the next one -- as our government was designed.
Trump aside, the whole Deep State thing is a real issue. Maybe use a less tinfoil-hat name, but anyone who has gone to court and seen dozens of employees standing around doing no work, or road crews that put up signs but don't actually even start to fix the roads for literally weeks, or try to get a straight answer from your city councilman, state or congressional representative on an issue or law, and you'll understand the very serious resentment many Americans have with how their government has become bloated, intrusive and arrogant.
Government at all levels needs to be scaled back. The problem is that all those millions of people on the public teat will push back hard against having to work real jobs in the private sector.
The grass always gets watered at city hall, no matter what.