Federal employees are being compelled to undergo training and workshops in DEI, etc. That’s political. When the NIH tells its employees that they must misgender others, they are compelling a politics. When NIH is hiring people on the basis of race or some other tribal identity while rejecting qualified applicants, that is political.
The administrative apparatus has been captured by woke progressivism and identity politics. They don’t have to say “Vote for Democrats!” Of course that’s forbidden. Elites dissimulate politics with rules like that. Feigned neutrality acts as a fig leaf to cover politics. You’d have to be willfully blind to not see their junk hanging out.
I work in a public institution. We aren’t allowed to use our offices, our phones, our classrooms, our emails, etc., for partisan political ends. However, if you don’t know that public universities are ideologically-captured and overwhelming pro-progressive and pro-Democrat, then you’re astonishingly naive. Faculty at public universities are protected by tenure and academic freedom; they can be ideological—and really-political. But a public university must be neutral with respect to the rights of citizens.
That the administration of a university should be ideologically and politically neutral is one thing. The notion that the federal bureaucracy should be is another. This is because the Executive, like the Legislature, is elected by the people to reflect the will of the people. The entire problem with the current state of affairs in the Executive branch is that the administrative apparatus is not politically appointed. There should be no agency independence from the Executive. You deserve the bureaucracy you vote for.
Just as Congressional staff should be loyal to the congressman they serve, so should the administrative staff be loyal to the Executive they serve. That’s what we vote for when we vote for President. We don’t vote for an Executive to head a bureaucracy that works against his agenda. We vote for the agenda, and we have a right to expect that the agenda directs the bureaucracy, carries out the laws formulated by the Legislature, within the rule of law overseen by the Judiciary.
This is especially important in light of the fact that the regulatory apparatus was created by progressives and industrialists as public relations for corporate interests and has been captured by corporate elite to prevent independence from their power. This is what we mean by deconstructing the administrative state, which has come to exist beyond the control of the Executive—we mean clearing out the political operatives from the other party, removing the permanent class of progressive activists, and restoring the constitutional republic to its three branches and the principle of separation of powers.
“Agency independence” is the slogan of corporate statism. Elites seek to decouple of agencies from the Executive to capture them and have them serve the interests of the corporate state. It’s time to fix this problem for good by deconstructing the administrative state. To do this, we need a revolution at the ballot box this November.
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