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The typical DC Bureaucrap cannot imagine how things fit together, they are too busy contemplating their naval and wondering how they can use their position to enrich them.

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Texas Fossil, this is as clear and plain-spoken critique of politicians as you'll find anywhere -- right down to mispelling the word "navel" :- )

For a longer definition of "politician", I refer you to a stupendous 1935 H. L. Mencken piece I made a vanity out of:

Mencken on the Constitution plus Musk and Friends Corral Dorsey at Runnymede

Here's Menken's opening paragraph:

At intervals in the history of the world, the people of some country or other, or, more accurately, a relatively enlightened and resolute faction of them, become unhappily aware of the nature of the government they live under, and undertake measures to improve it.

Something Necessary to Understand About Washington DC (Sep 29, 2023)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/29/something-necessary-to-understand-about-washington-dc/#more-251365

The people you think can fix this stuff have no idea how much you know. Additionally, it becomes destabilizing and unnerving for them to accept your level of information and understanding.

Another key and important element, beyond the knowledge, intellect, wisdom and discernment level… YOU care more about it than they do. The stuff that you know, the stuff that you yearn for them to address and fix, is more important to you than it is to them.

Why am I telling you this?

Because we all need to change your reference points when communicating with them. We need to confront their condescension early in our contact. We need to be deliberate, direct, and brutally honest in our delivery.

When we write to them, articulate the arguments. When we talk to them, pull them into the weeds of the issues and force them to see that our grasp of the topic far exceeds their ability to bullshit their way around the issue.

Being courteous, respectful and considerate for their role, does not mean you have to dumb yourself down or consider yourself subservient to their view.

I guarantee you two things. First, that you know the material better than they do. Second, I absolutely guarantee that you care more than they do. What that latter element says about the challenge is for another discussion, but these key points need to be emphasized.