“Today, the federal bureaucracy actually runs Congress, not the other way round. Bureaucrats write the bills that the elected representatives never read, but dutifully sign.”
On target, Kenny Bunk. I saw that on the local level when I worked in village government. Do you know how we solved that problem? We elected a pro-2nd Amendment, Constitutional sheriff.
He used his police powers to investigate rat bureaucrats. About a half-dozen were convicted of embezzlement and sent to state prison. Many more were brought up on charges of violating the state’s Open Meetings Law and personally fined. Others resigned and got out of Dodge before the sheriff’s posse arrived.
We have tools to rid ourselves of fascist bureaucrats if people get on the ball and start cleaning out their neighborhoods. If you need to clean house, always start with the one closest to you.
That is, that this Democrat Party Bureaucratic Hegemony extends into state and local government. We FReepers tend to think rather globally, when those of us who are able should be working on the village level!
If we are to avoid eventual Banana Republic existence, with revolutions, coups, counter-coups and endless Civil War, the reforms, IMNVHO, must be 'bottom-up' not t'otherway round. That's why the most interesting idea around is Constitutional Convention called by the States.