Conservative? Ethical? There’s No Room for You in Government

Pajamas Media ^ | July 11 | Hans A. von Spakovsky

[AJKauf]

The few fellow conservatives I found in the career ranks of the Justice Department were usually people who would only secretly admit their views.

At work, they maintain the fiction that they are liberals or apolitical in order to avoid retribution. Those who are openly conservative usually have given up on ever getting promoted or are in dead-end career slots.

Once a conservative is embedded into the civil service, he becomes beholden to careerist middle managers for salary increases, vacation approval, stimulating assignments, and even office location. Conservatives worried about kids, mortgages, good benefits, and glowing performance reviews can be quick to abandon pesky principles when faced with ideologically hostile middle mangers.

The absolute fury and unrelenting hostility that I encountered as an openly conservative career lawyer at the Justice Department was something that had to be seen to be believed....

[Kitanis]

I found the same thing when I worked for Department of Energy..

I was ridiculed to even suggest that the sitting president was the president.. My own supervisor told me.. “he is only the boss, only democrats can be presidents”.

[freemama]

This is why there should be term limits not just for elected politicians, but for buerocrats too.

[John Semmens]

This is too defeatist.

I spent 32 years working behind enemy lines in a state government agency.

I was able to use the knowledge gained to very publicly help thwart an $8 billion boondoggle they presented to voters.

I was also able to pay a mortgage and raise 3 children.

Most government agencies are constrained from retaliation by a “merit system” that requires cause before action can be taken against an employee. This is your “covering fire.”

True, you might not get all the promotions you could’ve if you’d simply gone along with the liberals. But resistance is still a doable and necessary task.

In a war for this country’s future some conservatives must be willing to infiltrate the government. We cannot afford to leave it a stronghold for unadulterated propaganda.