There’s been a lot of talk about who really decides; the shapers of policy. There is a myth we’ve been given to believe to placate us. To make us believe we participate in our governance. That we elect The Deciders. On paper, it is easy to believe, afterall, the buck stops…
But it’s not true.
Elected officials, often idiots popular for charisma or looks or race or some other irrelevant trait, are completely dependent on bureaucrats. Elected officials are not Subject Matter Experts in anything except getting reelected and they do not make informed decisions on any criteria other than how it affects their chances of getting reelected.
The bureaucrats are The Deciders. They are the people who decide what and how much information elected officials receive. More importantly in the context it is given. And the timing. And how it will play in the polls. How it will “impact the campaign.”
And all bureaucrats have an agenda. And no bureaucrat will abide challenges to their own power. Invasipns of their fiefdoms. Bureaucrats will create temporary alliances to teach lessons to any “temp” who dares cross them. “That is simply not the way things are done in the capitol.”
An elected official who stays long enough that their reelection is assured quickly shifts into a bureaucrat ally. An outsider within (Brandon, McCain). Don’t rock the boat.
They control media access, the media relies on them. So do lobbyists, who come from their ranks.
Does anybody really believe the Sheila Jackson Crazy or Majorie Taylor Nutjob is actually making informed decisions?
And the Senate, but especially the Executive are even worse. Strzok is the epitome of a bureacrat. He was running the FBI for all real and important purposes.
Bureaucrats know where the line that shall not be crossed is. They cross it, but they backstop it well, usually.
This may be nothing. Or it may be another chink in tge armor.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to run a government of any size without them; they are a necessary evil. Just don’t believe the lies.
