Donald! Government Is Not A Business. It's A Service!
Trump's attempt to be the Dulles brothers wet dream, the CEO in chief, will only isolate America even faster.
Trump attempting to have corporate culture take hold of the federal government, with a corporate friendly Supreme Court, that will allow Trump to fire federal employees at will and without cause, will cause, a hot civil war. Trump’s efficiency goons, Musk and Ramaswamy will have federal employees leaking incriminating documents at a record pace, as the fight back will have, federal employees use their best defence, the leaking of documents, from all departments and agencies. Federal employees will leak all the dirt from Trump’s last presidency, from the Biden presidency and Trump’s new presidency.
Calling the US bureaucracy the “Deep state” is a ruse. There is no deep state, there is only political appointees, meaning, those that the President appoints to head US government departments and their hires, who direct US departments and agencies politically, according to their ideology of robbing the treasury. The other guys have their ideology of robbing the treasury, too. The latest US military and intelligence budgets are consuming the overwhelming majority of the discretionary, non social security, medicare, budget. Public services have been cut to the bone. The defence and intelligence budgets that they changed the name of, to some gobble dee goop, to hide intent, reveal a military/corporate fascist state, right there in the numbers. The civil society has been completely counted out of the budget. The only thing keeps the American people from killing everyone at the top, is that the social security checks keep coming as sick and dying seniors, drive violent peasant revolutions.
The American people are not served by the defence and intelligence budgets but are expected to give up their children to fight and die for strictly corporate benefit. The corporate sector could brag that that’s why they can employ so many people but the majority of people are employed by small business. So, the benefits of the defence and intelligence budgets are mostly drawn by the corporate sector. This of course is a failure of politics. Trump is a failure of politics. Biden is a failure of politics and regardless of how these criminals made their way past the scrutiny of the American people, whether it be election theft and straight out lies, is irrelevant. The perpetuators of corruption in the political process, the political class and their masters, the military/corporate class, believe they can take away what they want from the social contract and get away with it. Not with the largest generation to retire, almost completely retired, now.
WWI gave the American oligarchy a taste for imperialism as most of their imperialist violence was still being directed at the First Nations population, stealing, even the coal and oil from under First Nation’s reservations and with “Manifest destiny” and the Monroe Doctrine, crushing South and Central American nations. But it was WWII and the Cold War, the US, in the last act of WWII, demonstrating the first nuclear weapons, used in real war conditions, that turned America completely into a new version of the British and by extension, Roman empires. The American public were not given their democratic rights, in the decision to green light nuclear power and the weapons that come from it but have been forced to live with the mess of it politically, socially and environmentally.
That war time lie, that act of fascist authoritarianism, that launched the Manhattan project has now morphed into capturing the whopping majority of the discretionary budget with a voting system that has removed the public’s eyeballs from the vote count, completely. Allowing the outcome of elections to be determined by the corporate sector as opposed to public sector. This of course violates the US constitution but the fascists have captured the US supreme court with that very same corporate vote count and just to make their Christian Right thugs happy, the captured SCOTUS turned women back into chattel. Now, the military/corporate fascists are bringing in a slash and burn president in a lame attempt to blowfish their way out of their political liabilities, having lost the war in the Ukraine and Gaza and exited Afghanistan in the most shameful way. That’s not public service.
Instead of expanding social security for Americans, congress has allowed the president to borrow against the social security fund while the right falsely claims the fund will be insolvent in short shrift, so they can borrow even more against it. A significant portion of the US deficit is owed to the social security fund. How can social security and medicare go insolvent if everyone is paying into it? Congress and the White House, steal it. So, when I here the man that just flushed billions of tax payer dollars down the toilet, in the most spectacular space wipe out in the history of space wipe outs, (Starship) just days before he is going to be given the power to cut federal jobs politically, I say, good luck Mr. Musk but you are going to get your ass kicked.
The Dulles brothers may have, from a cold, amoral, all business world view, from their war time dealings with Nazi war criminal, Heinrich Himmler, to their directing the newly minted CIA and the US Defence Dept., to service needs of American corporation’s interests, at home and abroad, may have advanced military and corporate fascism but it was done completely behind the American public’s back. Running coups and invasions for oil and treasure abroad and domestically, with military contracting in almost every state along with US military bases to match, obligating the political class in each state to support defence jobs and did it all without asking the permission of the American people. It’s hilarious, to watch Sen. Bernie Sanders defend the boondoggle F-35 program in Vermont, to protect jobs. The American public didn’t green light money laundering in the defence dept but the F-35 looks exactly like money laundering.
When the “Peace dividend”, at the end of the Cold War, was supposed to increase public spending on domestic, public works and services, the Dulles Cult over at the Rand Corporation came up with the “War on terror” and have exploded defence and intelligence spending to the point of almost ensuring government insolvency. There is however, an easy way out for any president and it can be done by any president with out permission. The president can immediately redirect federal capital allocated for defence and intelligence spending to an emergency housing program, building storm proof housing and shoring up existing. To increased social security payments and increased medicare coverage, which are both lagging far behind inflation. To the Justice Dept to sue corporations violating the US Anti Trust laws which will effectively break up the banks, back into thousands of banks and Coops. But most importantly creating international confidence in US Treasury bonds by cutting defence spending to the bone and adopting a live and let live foreign policy. That would be poignant, public service, Mr. Trump.