The Naked Self-Interest Of The Bureaucratic Class

Townhall.com ^ | June 20, 2014 | Jonah Goldberg

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is why Thomas Jefferson was right. A little revolution every now and then is a good thing. Once layer after layer of bureacracy is piled on top of each other to create the modern, out-of-control state, the only way to clean it up and rationalize it is to destroy it.

[gusty]

Maybe so, but a very minor point in what Goldberg is saying. The point is that the bureaucrats do not need orders from the top in order to act. They just follow their innate ideological instincts, and what the top wants accomplished, will get done. It is called the Fuhrer Principle. The leader only has to give a speech in broad strokes, and then it is up to the underlings to implement what they think the leader wants. What is insidious for us, is that the leader is the Democrat Party. When Obama is president the bureaucrats work to implement his will. If a Republican becomes president, the bureaucrats will continue to implement the will of their leaders, the Democrats, by undermining the Republican administration. The system is set up by the Left, so heads they win, tails we lose.

[Aevery_Freeman]

The primary rule of every bureaucracy is to protect themselves from dismissal.

You understand that you are speaking with a teacher,right?

The second most important rule is to convince everyone of your nobility and sacrifice.

[Lake Living]

I think we all know the truth. America is over and we are all but slaves of the state. Cloward/Piven has all but won the day and our collapse can’t be far away. Who knows what will happen after that but it can’t be good. I can’t see us surviving another almost 3 yrs. of the Bamster. Just reading the headlines here on FreeRepub shows the rate of increase of horrible things happening in our country. “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3. For the righteous, they must content themselves with his presence now and his judgement of the wicked later. We are going the way of all other nations. Due to our fallen nature, eventually, evil overtakes us no matter how we try to legislate it from rising up. There’s a better coming - but lots of bad stuff before it gets here. Get prayed up.

[Tradcon]

I know a lot of you don’t like to give Glenn Beck credit, but he said years ago, when he was voicing his dislike of Woodrow Wilson, that Wilson’s favorite book was “Phillip Drew, Administrator”. And here we are!

[depressed in 06]

Term limits for bureaucrats!