I still have no use for her.
𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 (𝘚𝘌𝘚) 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦.
𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢’𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤.
𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳.
Agreed. Tulsi was a member of Congress as recently as a few years ago, and a democrat to boot, so she knows damn well how things work in DC.
𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯.
This mentality also aggravates me. They’re elected to represent their constituents, and remain within the boundaries established by our charter of government, the U.S. Constitution. I don’t want to elect someone to “lead the country”. I don’t want to elect someone who’s going to make empty promises to “fight for me” or provide me with provide gift or largess. I just want a government that will protect individual liberties, and leave me the hell alone.
The deep state is not a legitimate extension of a “constitutional republic”. It is an infection of said republic with permanent bureaucracy. Didn’t you read the part of the Declaration where Jefferson complaints that England had multiplied offices against its subjects in the colonies? Or the part in DeTocqueville where he expounds on the virtues of centralized authority but de-centralized administration?
What check or balance keeps the deep state in check? The President? He has eight years in office, and they are there for decades, an incestuous cabal no less pernicious than the Russian Nomenklatura. Congress? Bureaucrats promulgate their own “regulations,” which is a fancy way of saying they legislate. The courts? They depend on the deep state to enforce their rulings. The states? They each have their own deep states, and thanks to the 14th Amendment and a century of judicial rulings, also the federal deep state to contend with.
The Constitutional Republic is an old structure, and it has termites.