Why Beltway government workers are at the center of the impeachment crisis.
Mon Dec 2, 2019 Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
A recent Rasmussen/Heartland poll found that government workers were more likely to vote for socialist candidates and gun control. While only a quarter of Americans were willing to vote for a socialist candidate, a third of government employees were happy to do so.
That’s not a shocker.
62% of federal workers voted for Hillary Clinton. In October of that election year, Trump’s unfavorable rating among federal employees stood at 68%. Only 38% of federal employees who supported Trump did so fully rather than as a better alternative to Hillary Clinton. This did not bode well for his first year.
President Trump’s 100 days approval rating was at 42%. His rating among government employees was 37%. There was a stark divide-- excerpt, rest at link above --
QuoteBut the larger conflict is between the Beltway and the country. Beltway government employees have formed a state within a state. A governmental entity with vast powers, and political and economic goals, that is not meaningfully accountable to the people over whom it rules. That is the nature of the crisis.
This is SO true. There are rumors and reports that appear and disappear saying the administration is moving x number of employees of x government agency out of DC. I hope the President does this with gusto in his second term.
Break up these agencies.... all of them, including the FBI and the CIA. Give them a laptop and spread them out to the furthest corners of the country. Podunk would be a good place to start moving them.
I've got some "skin" in this game. The 24 years of Clinton/Obama/Bush have left behind a trail of liberal government workers 30 feet deep; and they have been the tipping point turning the Commonwealth of Virginia blue. No one goes back home any more after the administration that brought them ends. Government jobs are well-paying and secure.
But the larger conflict is between the Beltway and the country. Beltway government employees have formed a state within a state. A governmental entity with vast powers, and political and economic goals, that is not meaningfully accountable to the people over whom it rules. That is the nature of the crisis.
Oh hell yes! That and nothing else. I never thought I would live to see it flushed out into the open but, thank God, events have proven me wrong.
We will never again be truly FREE people for so long as we continue to abide the Marxist Income Tax Code and the IRS!
QuoteBut the larger conflict is between the Beltway and the country. Beltway government employees have formed a state within a state. A governmental entity with vast powers, and political and economic goals, that is not meaningfully accountable to the people over whom it rules. That is the nature of the crisis.
This is SO true. There are rumors and reports that appear and disappear saying the administration is moving x number of employees of x government agency out of DC. I hope the President does this with gusto in his second term.
Break up these agencies.... all of them, including the FBI and the CIA. Give them a laptop and spread them out to the furthest corners of the country. Podunk would be a good place to start moving them.
I've got some "skin" in this game. The 24 years of Clinton/Obama/Bush have left behind a trail of liberal government workers 30 feet deep; and they have been the tipping point turning the Commonwealth of Virginia blue. No one goes back home any more after the administration that brought them ends. Government jobs are well-paying and secure.