Mark Jacob: It's not the 'deep state' - it's the deep dedication of public servants

[Nevilledog]

https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/its-not-the-deep-state-its-the-deep

During a brutal week when President-elect Donald Trump announced the selection of outrageously corrupt Republicans as Cabinet members, this New York Times headline set me off:

Trump Takes on the Pillars
of the 'Deep State'

The nation’s most prominent newspaper adopted the language of right-wing propaganda. Maybe the Times told itself that those quote marks around “deep state” made it OK. They didn’t. This was the Times helping the right depict the federal workforce as a cabal of devious ideologues scheming to steal our freedom when – in fact – these workers are keeping prescription drugs from killing us, prosecuting sex traffickers, warning us about hurricanes and helping us recover from those hurricanes after they occur.

When you see who pushes the “deep state” myth, it’s clear what they want: a country in which corporate and political corruption can run wild, unimpeded by dedicated professionals acting in the public interest.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s “Department of Government Efficiency” threatens to produce the opposite of efficiency – an intentional incompetence in which experts are banished, vital services are abandoned and only lackeys are left.

The Project 2025 right-wing blueprint, which Trump disavowed even though it was written by his supporters, calls for a direct attack on a nonpartisan federal workforce. It features a “personnel database” where partisan hacks can get in line to become taxpayer-supported partisan hacks. Trump’s own official Agenda 47 promises to “clean out the Deep State” with an executive order asserting “the president’s authority to fire rogue bureaucrats.”

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[jfz9580m]

1. K&R

My parents were public servants..

[Irish_Dem]

3. Many public servants do difficult, even dangerous jobs with not great pay or respect.

They do it anyway.

Now the public is being told they are to blame for all of society's ills.

[jfz9580m]

5. Agreed

Honest public servants are being smeared by a bunch of drugged-out, narcissistic, trolling, creepy, crypto bros..it is truly angering..

[Irish_Dem]

6. It is worse than that. It is a focused strategy so the billionaires can steal the federal budget.

Destroy or privatize everything.

We are talking $trillions of dollars.

[jfz9580m]

7. This will stress test American democracy

Surely they cannot just actually do all the shit they claim they will do?

[Irish_Dem]

8. Of course they can do it.

Trump is consolidating his power now and has the world kissing his ring when he is not even in office.

The entire US government has folded like a lawn chair.

[jfz9580m]

9. I am hoping

This sort of stuff goes somewhere:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219736208

This harassment of public servants has to stop. They just want to privatise everything while getting rid of any regulations against conflicts of interest/crony capitalism/outright destructive policies etc.

[Irish_Dem]

10. This is just the beginning of the demonization of public servants.

The goal is to destroy the federal government to consolidate power for Trump and for the billionaires
to make $Trillions.

The federal government is $7Trillion a year.
The Trumps and billionaires want that money.

[jfz9580m]

11. One hopes someone applies the brakes :( .nt

[Irish_Dem]

12. Who?

No one has done any thing to date along those lines.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Public servants working for the American people and common good are being demonized.

Humiliated and denigrated.

This is so the billionaires can swoop in and steal the federal budget.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R