What we have is a Federal government that is, in reality, a feudal collection of various bureaucratic duchies. Each one pays lip service allegiance to the sovereign, but owes its highest allegiance to its own bureaucratic fiefdom. Each duchy recognizes no constraint on its power by Congress, the Courts or the American people. I believe they don’t really recognize the authority of he President of the United States. For example, in the case of IRS persecution of TEA Party groups, while it may have been the wishes of the President to deny non-profit status to TEA Party groups, the IRS was going to do that anyway regardless of what the President wanted. An IRS bureaucrat reads “TEA” as “RIF” and they will never willingly submit to that. So they willingly and eagerly persecuted those groups in an abuse of their bureaucratic power.
This is what you get when you have a bloated government that has becomefar too large, too pervasive, and too powerful.
Oh, and it has not escaped my attention that every federal agency, like every feudal duchy, has its own army. That is clearly on display here.
It’s Anarcho-Tyranny, and it’s all part of the plan.