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http:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=15101<\/a><\/p>\n

Whether you agree with all, some or none of what TheZMan writes, I don\u2019t think you can doubt his analytical ability.\u00a0 In this article he paints a pretty convincing case for the current American power structure being basically a bunch of interlocking old boy networks stretching across industry, academia, media and the government bureaucracies.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s hardly an original concept but what he stresses is that the pettiness and parochial nature of the mindset allows us to understand how for instance, the Swamp\u2019s attack on Trump works.\u00a0 It\u2019s Frasier at the FBI meeting up on the Vineyard with his old prep school buddy Chad at the New York Times to plant a story about Russian collusion by this gauche upstart Trump.\u00a0 It\u2019s Everett at the EPA calling up fellow Yalie, Chaz at MIT\u2019s Climate Institute to schedule a symposium announcing the latest \u201cClimate Change Doomsday Milestone\u201d and by the way, \u201clet\u2019s get together for a last weekend in the Hamptons.\u201d\u00a0 Looking at it in that context, allows us to see how the bureaucracy can thrive whether the President is W or Obama.\u00a0 As long as you play ball with them and allow them their prerogatives they\u2019ll play ball with you and even work to destroy your enemies, well, as long as they\u2019re the wrong kind of people, of course.<\/p>\n

Reading this makes it a little easier to understand how it all works but is the play forcing them to play ball with us while slowly draining the swamp or just nuking the swamp.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what it would be like to have two million unemployed WASPs whose only job skills are manipulating bureaucratic power for fun and profit but I think I\u2019m starting to warm to the idea.\u00a0 Everyone who works in the cold-blooded world of modern-day mid-level corporate life knows that every day you will be challenged with proving to the company that they actually need your services.\u00a0 Can you imagine if Muffy or Chad were suddenly looking for work on their own merits?\u00a0 Of course, their cousins heading up the Fortune 500 companies they\u2019ll be applying to would like to help them out but it\u2019s just that without the clout of their former positions in government there really isn\u2019t a quid pro quo there.\u00a0 And with so many of these swamp dwellers cut loose all at once there just aren\u2019t enough feather-bedding opportunities to go around.\u00a0 My gosh they might have to start out in the stock room.\u00a0 Oh, but wait there is no stock room anymore it\u2019s been outsourced to Amazon and Fedex.\u00a0 Sorry.<\/p>\n

Seriously, none of this stuff is surprising.\u00a0 It\u2019s as old as the priestly class in Sumer.\u00a0 People form hierarchies and use them to feather their own nests.\u00a0 But at a certain point the parasitic load overwhelms the vitality of the host and either a vermifuge is administered or the host dies.\u00a0 Draining the swamp is another way of saying worming the United States.\u00a0 It can be done.\u00a0 But it takes a courageous mean bastard to do it right.\u00a0 I think Trump could be that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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