“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.” -Milton Friedman
Corruption, fraud and waste in the federal government is being exposed at a massive scale on a daily basis. Anger has been misdirected at the individuals auditing and uncovering these nefarious activities rather than at the ones responsible for them. Truly disheartening is the pervasive cult of bureaucracy that has been revealed by the oversight endeavor, priorities askew for those clinging to it in supposed defense of “our democracy.” Further, they are petulantly upset that federal employees must justify their continued employment in this overbloated bureaucracy. What they actually defend, though, is continuation of grift and plunder that has defrauded American taxpayers to the benefit of elitist shysters - far more severe with greater consequence than actions taken by the British crown that sparked a revolution centuries ago. It is mindnumbingly absurd, if not exhausting, that attempts to downsize and limit government is lamented as dictatorial by those who advocate for maintaining expansive bureaucratic tyranny.
To sabotage the undertaking, Democrats and a fractured legacy media have deployed their standard tactic: projection. Anything ruinous that would have continued to occur if they still held majority control - along with everything caused by them that did happen during that tenure - is now cast upon Republicans as a dire warning. From ending the Department of Education to reviewing Social Security, all allegedly will be decimated if efforts are successful at remaking a federal government more efficient and streamlined. Education will decline? It already has been for years due to federal bureaucracy. Social Security will become insolvent? It already has been for years due to federal bureaucracy. This is an across-the-board pattern that they continually refuse to acknowledge, for obvious reason. Nevertheless, Democrats’ sky-is-falling mindset when not in power is twisted, if not tiresome, wherever efforts to undue their catastrophic failures are implemented - efforts which the majority of Americans voted for back in November.
Every former president has wielded executive authority, but it is deemed unconstitutional only when objectionable ones use it. Yet, many now ignorantly lecturing about supposed fascism had no such qualms concerning tyrannical actions the federal government and unelected bureaucrats implemented five years ago during the global scamdemic. Even more, these same hypocrites advocate censorship whenever they encounter anything disagreeable to their viewpoint; accordingly, anyone opposed and attempting to counter suppression efforts is, unironically, labeled a fascist. Admittedly, a tyrant dismantling the apparatus of control and power would be an unprecedented anomaly. Add to this mix the routine surge in way-too-online constitutional, history, international affairs and military “experts” and “scholars” posting incoherently on social media. Fearmongering and warmongering always have gone hand-in-hand to stir emotions among the masses, and liberals who constantly decry disinformation nonetheless openly and consistently spread it to create hysteria.
In the game of poker, a person can win if they play their cards right holding none of them. Currently, Democrats hold an extremely weak hand yet are bluffing a stronger position within a dwindling minority. Republicans must call their bluff by continuing to successfully fulfill campaign promises, resisting innate conservative inclinations to subsist on laurels and backslide to mundanely administrate governance as is the characteristically warranted tendency. Contrary in some right-wing circles favoring less audacity, conservative principles do not necessitate a predisposition to constantly maintain a defensively timid posture against more activist liberal ones. To quote President Theodore Roosevelt, “aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.”
©2025 Steve Sagarra