Top-level management is more likely to lean to the left, with 49 percent of GS-15 and Senior Executive Service employees identifying or leaning Democrat and 40 percent Republican. Respondents serving as GS-14s and below saw a 44/38 split toward Democrats.
Now read my last stalemate/post.
Maybe in future you should learn to think for yourself.
In one category, 8% more dems. Overall, 4% more dems With about 20% not having an opinion. The claim was there was an overwhelming bias for democrats among bureaucrats. That has been proven inaccurate.
That article was written in 2015. Long before Trump started cleaning house.
There are several easily discernable reasons why they would claim to be republican, not least of which they tend to get bigger budgets and be allowed to do what they want under a classic republican administration. Dems used to try to rein them in.
Party doesn’t mean a lot to them, protecting their fiefs does. Any one of them would burn this country down to protect their agency.
Like a previous poster said…He’d probably like to keep his job, and it was suggested he say something along the line of what your op was about…To quote a line from “Bridge over the River Kwai”…“When a man like your Colonel suggests something, it’s an order”
The poll only includes management level employees.
Government Business Council, the research arm of Government Executive Media Group, conducted the online email survey through a random sample of Government Executive , Nextgov , Defense One , and Route Fifty print and online subscribers. From August 7-12, 973 federal employees participated in the survey, including 491 at the GS/GM-13 and above grade levels and 25 members of the Senior Executive Service. Respondents include representatives from at least 30 federal and defense agencies. The margin of error is +/-3%.
To a certain degree there could be some truth to this. Every agency(DOD, USAID, USDT, ONI, NGA, ACIC, FBI and DISA) I worked for there was a unspoken/spoken rule in regards to discussing politics, you’re not supposed to do it. Now when it was discussed maybe during social events, happy hour, lunch setting or even small talk in the hallway or parking garage there were a lot in support of the GOP especially during the Bush years. Hell, I was one of them. However at the end of the day all of us, well at least the people I worked with checked our politics at the door to make sure we accomplished the mission of the agency and our country’s interests domestic and abroad. Now don’t get me wrong there was quite a bit of BS, but a lot of it came at the top from congress(getting their kickbacks from lobbyist), agency heads to cabinet members to as high as the POTUS.
From my experience this is how it was/is like across the board. This is why I don’t buy into this so-called deep state leftist cabal out to undermine our democracy. There are plenty of unsavory people with their own agenda’s in government, however this has more to do with getting wins, prestige and promotion which is just like it is in private industry. That’s the reality. Once again it’s always about the mission.