On the one hand, agency capture is a real phenomenon. On the other hand, it likely occurs at the top of the power pyramid, not among committed civil servants lower down.
The deep state refers to those who are not elected, who are not appointed by those who are elected, but who exercise power across political administrations without any check by voters.
Yeah, heaven forfend we'd want to preserve any kind of institutional memory. Let's reappoint everybody every two years, that'll make things work well.
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You should be doing your job not creating hatred towards your boss.
So, you mean Musk is part of the Deep State?
However Musk was first made the head of a an agency without Senate confirmation or Congress approval for the new position bypassing the people he should have been appointed by for the position. His label only changed once the courts got involved
"deep state" is anyone with a differing opinion that works in government.
This applies to all these other misaligned comments about corruption coming from the top rather than bottom of the “pyramid.”
Ordinary people are doing what the voices in their heads cause them to (often without awareness, though truly intelligent people know they are there, without further comprehension.) The pyramid scheme is not of ordinary bureaucrats, it is of those disembodied men who control the voices in their heads.
Mr. Kennedy knows something of these. Who will share their stories of what has been going on in their own minds?
Think about police corruption, the chief gets a big bribe from OC and the beat cops tax the population for their bribes