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Is there a deep state?: Reformers
Neither schedule F nor status quo Look, I have worked in government for fourteen years and I have seen both failure modes from the inside. I have watched a career official slow-walk a lawful directive because she disagreed with the policy.... Is there a deep state?: Structural analysis
The tenure gap Average tenure of a senior FDA regulator: 22 years. Average tenure of the political appointee nominally in charge: 18 months. Those two numbers explain more about American governance than either the phrase "deep state" or the phrase "public service" ever will.... Is there a deep state?: Institutional defenders
The data and the briefing On a Saturday morning in February 2020, a career epidemiologist named Nancy Messonnier held a press briefing and said what nobody in the administration wanted her to say: disruption to everyday life may be severe. The stock market dropped 1,000 points.... Is there a deep state?: Deep state critics
The pattern Comey briefed Trump. CNN reported the briefing existed. BuzzFeed published the dossier. That is not a conspiracy theory. That is a communications strategy. Peter Strzok texted about an insurance policy. McCabe authorized a leak and lied about it.... Is there a deep state?: The Story
725 to 1 The federal government employs roughly 2.9 million civilian workers. A new president appoints about 4,000 of them. That is a ratio of 725 to 1.... Incorruptible Organizations AMA with Eric Ries. Wednesday 2/4 at 3:00 PM CT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNfb54LuzwI'At core', the topic began as preventing corruption. What something 'at core' happens to be called or labeled, relates only to the perspective of the labelers. Advocates of hierarchic, authoritarian regulation by and large equate anarchy with chaos.... American Military Bases are basically socialist woke dream . I was talking to a former military brat just yesterday about her life growing up in US military bases around the world with a Colonel father.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/troops-of-the-uniform-unite-the-military-is-a-socialist-paradise/
She mentioned that food, housing, health care and education is all provided and equal. The 4 star general's kid goes to the same school as the private's kid. So the school has to be damm good to make sure they can get into the Ivy Leagues. She never knew anything about health insurance, when anyone was sick, they just went to the clinic and got care. Everything was equal and fair without money involved. She was surprised to learn what health insurance even was when she came to the US as a teenager. "You mean you don't just get taken care of when you're sick?"
Given the recent Prez/SecWar gathering the US military generals to say we're ending the "woke" era. Maybe they should also stop this socialist wet dream happening in hundreds of military bases worldwide.
Of course, there're downsides to the military and growing up in that system. Not to mention the difference of volunteering to risk sacrificing your life and getting benefits in return. Nonetheless, it does seem to validate that if you're doing a great social good then you deserve a strong social safety net.Thanks, never knew this. I also laughed out loud at “socialist wet dream” what do you think makes this possible on military bases? Some things that come to mind are plenty of funding, strict hierarchy, military command and control culture, and size limits....