Been writing for years that “it’s the bureaucratst stupid…” - more than the taxes, more than the politicians, more than anything….the evil is in the cubicles of the bureaus….
The first principle of bureaucracy is to increase in size and authority. All other action flows from this dictim. Rome continued for hundreds of years following its political fall by virtue of an entrenched bureaucracy. Elected officials are in power for a season. Bureaucrats for a lifetime. The bureaucracy forever.