Cover up

There are many ways that the un-elected officials (bureaucrats) present a danger to our democracy. One of the most common is the refusal to release information based on the claim of national security. Over the past years since the inception of the FBI in 1908 and its heading by J Edgar Hoover in 1935 many examples of the misuse of power have been revealed. There is good reason to believe that this misuse is still going on to this day. If certain individuals within the system feel they know better than the voters on how the country should be run this will present a danger to democracy. The only protection against such chicanery is transparency but this is blunted by the claim of national security. It is particularly threatening when bureaucrats refuse to give information to congress whose job it is to oversea the activities of these bureaucracies. When whistle blowers reveal uncomfortable secrets the bureaucrats leap into action do discredit those involved. Since the government is divided by parties there will almost always be enough crying disinformation to interfere with the release of information. The dissenting voices will say it is just politics and in time the issue will die. Thus it is years later when the truth comes out and no one cares. One of the most famous was a secret report about the Vietnam War. The report was prepared in 1971 in the thick of the war but it was discredited by the government when some information was leaked. The government declared that this information should not be published in the name of national security. The Supreme Court ruled against the government and the press asked for the report. It was released only in small sections with much information blacked out. In 2011, forty years later, the full un-redacted report was released and no one cared. The report showed that the lies began with Truman and carried right on through with Eisenhower, Nixon and Johnson. 30 years of cover ups over the most critical aspect of government which is war.

States rights

Abortion is one of the more controversial issues facing the country and will be debated widely in the upcoming presidential election. There are several important views on how this should be resolved but the most democratic is already underway. It will be decided on a state by state basis using the vote of the people in those states. The constitution clearly states in the tenth amendment that. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. This was further instilled in law when the Supreme Court prescribed this method. This will result in the old states rights argument that some people are too prejudice to decide important issues on their own and must be guided by the wiser hand of the federal government. The concept of moving power to the federal government because people are too uninformed to make wise decisions is prevalent in many areas today.

Lives

There is a public service ad on TV where it says don't hate and then different words are added like Jews, Blacks, Gays and so on. This makes sense since most people understand that hate is not a good thing. This, however, was not allowed in BLM. You could say Black Lives Matter but you could not say all lives matter even though most people understand that all lives matter.

Egg shells

In this day and age of cancel culture one group of people who must be extra careful are school teachers. They must walk on egg shells each day for fear that some comment may cause the students to walk out and thus embarrass the principal. This happen at Park High School where most of the classrooms have signs saying Black Lives Matter. One teacher made the fatal mistake of saying all lives matter and the students walked out. In the news this week a riot occurred at a high school when the students found out that one of the teachers attended a pro Israel rally over the weekend. It has now spread from inside the school to outside the school. Teachers activities away from school are now being watched and thus the egg shells are now in the non work part of their lives. There are people who do not like the phrase cancel culture so call it something else but the fact remains the effect is there.

Two State

All of the Middle East experts on TV are constantly referring to the Two State Solution wherein Palestine and Israel will each have their own country living side by side in peace. What they all seem to miss is that Hamas has explicitly stated they oppose any State of Israel. Simple stated this means that while everyone prefers a 2 State this will not be possible so long as Hamas exist. The obvious conclusion is that Hamas must be destroyed before the 2 State is possible.

Regulations

The term Deep State is controversial because it has become political. The Deep State is twofold. First and most easily recognized is the red tape needed to do anything. This is federal, state and local. It takes much too long to get things going. Former President Obama said, there is no such thing as a shovel ready job. He learned as president what Joe the plumber could have told him. As the push to move the infrastructure bill gets underway the problems with regulations will become the biggest obstacle. The bureaucrats in control of departments like commerce and EPA will determine how successful the transition to reshoring will take place. Second is the small cadre of top officials in the State Department who have become political. They are after Trump now but in time things may change and then people who are quiet now will wake up to the fact that once again bureaucrats are running the show. These people have access to secret FBI files on just about everyone and they can use that information. As long as the country is split along political lines these people can and will run the show.

Democrats

The democratic party has always has its share of coastal liberal elites but these were combined with a large group of blue collar working people so there was a kind of balance in the party. In recent years starting with Reagan the blue collar group has moved away from the democrats and the number of college educated mostly White people have moved into the democratic house. For many years the secret that democrats wanted to keep was that those in charge felt that the little guy could not take care of himself and needed the wisdom of the elites to guide and protect them, often times protecting them from themselves. It was imperative that this secret be kept for the elite did not want to seem as though they knew what was best, even though in their hearts that is exactly what they felt. This was particularly evident in the way minorities were seen, people needing the help of those who were wiser. Over the years the working class and minorities discovered that things were not really improving that much even though they were told that things were getting better. That is happening right today with Bidenomics. The elites feel that things are going well but people are just not smart enough to understand and that the big problem is in the messaging not in the policies.