Counterrevolution Blueprint How to eliminate left-wing racialism from the federal government (Rufo)

City Journal ^ | Christopher Rufo

[RoosterRedux]

The counterrevolution begins now.

First, a map of the territory. Left-wing thinking is pervasive in the federal bureaucracy, shaping the behavior of federal agencies and operating unaffected by electoral politics. Most employees of the administrative state, especially those concerned with justice, education, arts, and health, are overwhelmingly left-wing, and partisans of fashionable ideologies.

The data are striking. During the 2020 presidential cycle, Department of Justice employees directed 86 percent of their political contributions to Democrats; at Labor, it was 88 percent; Health and Human Services, 92 percent; and Education, 97 percent. Overall, 84 percent of donations from nondefense federal employees went to presidential candidate Biden, according to Bloomberg. These numbers mirror trends in tech companies and universities, often seen as bastions of left-wing thought. When institutions skew so heavily toward one ideology, they become prone to ideological capture.

The federal government now underwrites progressive ideologies, such as critical race theory, through vast financial subsidies. Public universities, bolstered by federal funding and government-backed student loans, house numerous departments promoting these views. Additionally, federal grants and diversity training contracts, largely managed by bureaucrats without legislative oversight, channel taxpayer money toward ideological initiatives. Data from the General Services Administration reveal a consistent left-wing bias in such expenditures, persisting under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

At the Treasury Department, for example, administrators under Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden funded many critical theory–based programs, often under euphemisms related to “diversity.” Under Obama, the Treasury created the Office for Minority and Women Inclusion and other race- and identity-based initiatives. Under Trump, Treasury pushed critical race theory as an operating ideology, hiring consultants to conduct training programs teaching employees that America was a nation of “systemic racism” with a 400-year history of “racial terrorism” that continues “to this very day.” Their proposed solution: for federal employees—especially “white folk” with an obligation to do serious “inner work”—to become “activists” and advance the agenda of “racial equity.”

These programs multiplied and intensified under Biden. As I recently reported, the Biden administration used executive authority to create a permanent racialist bureaucracy, including an Equity Hub, an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, and a Counselor for Racial Equity. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, together with Vice President Kamala Harris, announced $8.7 billion in lending to “minority-owned businesses,” an openly discriminatory effort. The Treasury also compelled federal contractors to implement DEI. At the same time, Treasury policy concerning Earned Income Tax Credit audits changed to “examining audit fairness by other demographic categories”—a euphemism for racial favoritism.

[Uncle Miltie]

Fire EVERYONE January 20th.

Then, the few conservatives who were accidentally over-fired can apply for their old jobs back.

[PGR88]

Well-meaning, but pure fantasy

As long as the USA runs a printed, fiat monetary system, run by a central authority (in this case, the Federal Reserve), the temptation and corruption of printed money and massive debt will ALWAYS overwhelm any short-term political controls.

Fed.gov now has a $2 Trillion (and rising) permanent yearly spending deficit. That money will always flow from the hands of Fed.gov, giving government, its ideologues, its social-engineering schemes, and its cronies privileged access to it.

It will go until it our money becomes worthless, and it crashes.

Maybe then we can start again with a hard-money system, as the Founders explicitly intended, and which this country mostly had for 150 years.

[Albion Wilde]

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