”THE DEEP STATE EXISTS TO BATTLE PEOPLE LIKE TRUMP” Margaret O’Mara, NYT Oct 26, 2019
Ms O’Mara, allegedly a historian of some note and op ed NY Times author, admits that the “Deep State” exists. But she would like to see this group of elite insiders and seat-warmers as benign ‘civil servants” who exist to prevent corruption and keep the “state” functioning to serve the people. But which people is she referring to? The Deep State operates to serve itself. They are not the electorate from which the power to govern derives.
What Miss O’Maara ignores is that the civil servants are not the “people’s choice” they are paid to provide service to those who ARE the people’s choice—elected officials. They should not have their own agenda, Their sinecures as bureaucrats with privileges and stable and sometimes lucrative incomes that are almost completely insulated from job loss or accountability are simply a deeply entrenched group of individuals who have a existential stake in the status quo. They protect their turf. They are not the people’s servants as Ms. O’Mara would have us believe. They resist change, since over their long-term bureaucratic occupation they have put time and energy into establishing a complex network of relationships which are mutually beneficial to themselves and their colleagues. “One hand washes the other.” They resist change because change will disrupt and shatter self-serving positions they occupy.
What Ms O’Mara ignores it that an election often signifies a necessary change in policy or direction of the course of government. Regular elections exist to reaffirm the acquiescence of the governed with the elected officials. To reestablish the connection between government and the people that are governed. The government should be serving the most recent manifestation of the will of the people NOT that of the long entrenched bureaucrats who have their own agenda.
Ms O’Mara (and her historical analysis of past wrongdoing) is fundamentally wrong and without merit because she ignores the above essential principles of our past, our Founders efforts and our Constitution.
But she gets on thing right. That is posting the existence of the deep state. The term is shunned by the left and the MSM. When it is noted, it is often placed in quotes as: “Deep State”. The quotes implying that the elite author is only quoting ignorant unredeemables or red necks who actually believe that a deep state exists. Or if it is mentioned, it is characterized as some form of wild conspiracy theory of the right. But Ms O’Mara has at lest in this case permitted the camel’s nose to wiggle under the canvass tent.
Yes like Ms O’Mara we should all be aware of the problems of an out of control, self serving civil service—the deep state. We should all, both Democrat and Republican, resent actions of these overly powerful “civil servant” who would frustrate the legitmate will of the people in a valid election. Such as that of Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump is and was the PEOPLE’S CHOICE. The deep state is attempting to frustrate that decision. The people who serve this nation as civil servants should abide by the Constitution which guarantees are rights to vote and understand that they SERVE THE PEOPLE..not themselves as Ms. O’Mara would have it.
What Ms O’Mara ignores it that an election often signifies a necessary change in policy or direction of the course of government. Regular elections exist to reaffirm the acquiescence of the governed with the elected officials. To reestablish the connection between government and the people that are governed. The government should be serving the most recent manifestation of the will of the people NOT that of the long entrenched bureaucrats who have their own agenda.
Ms O’Mara (and her historical analysis of past wrongdoing) is fundamentally wrong and without merit because she ignores the above essential principles of our past, our Founders efforts and our Constitution.
But she gets on thing right. That is posting the existence of the deep state. The term is shunned by the left and the MSM. When it is noted, it is often placed in quotes as: “Deep State”. The quotes implying that the elite author is only quoting ignorant unredeemables or red necks who actually believe that a deep state exists. Or if it is mentioned, it is characterized as some form of wild conspiracy theory of the right. But Ms O’Mara has at lest in this case permitted the camel’s nose to wiggle under the canvass tent.
Yes like Ms O’Mara we should all be aware of the problems of an out of control, self serving civil service—the deep state. We should all, both Democrat and Republican, resent actions of these overly powerful “civil servant” who would frustrate the legitmate will of the people in a valid election. Such as that of Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump is and was the PEOPLE’S CHOICE. The deep state is attempting to frustrate that decision. The people who serve this nation as civil servants should abide by the Constitution which guarantees are rights to vote and understand that they SERVE THE PEOPLE..not themselves as Ms. O’Mara would have it.
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