Bureaucrats

The bureaucrats in Washington present a looming threat to democracy. They use their power to control the growth of industries by piling regulation upon regulation, to mandate medical treatment, to gather information on citizens and slowly erode personal freedoms by influencing the social networks. They have fostered the division between political parties by claiming the republicans want to bring back the days of racism and sexism and democrats want to silence free speech. They have promoted globalization and moved factory jobs to Asian at the expense of the working people and benefit of corporations which has widened the income gap. They have conscripted the press by showing how dissension can grow business and has saved a dying TV and print news by increasing readership and clicks. They have promoted internationalism using the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO, the WHO and the World Court to move power away from the people into the hands of a few elites in Brussels. The defense department uses wars to feed the military industrial complex and the Justice department partners with the information industrial complex by way of social media The solution is for the citizens to unite behind their common goals of using the military to protect from foreign invaders, demanding good paying jobs here at home, having a effective legal immigration system, securing the borders, developing a strong safety net for those who slip though the cracks, having police who protect the neighborhoods, schools that put students first using academics that prepare them for adulthood and reminding the bureaucrats that they work for the people.