To the editor: In his column differentiating between the “swamp” and the “deep state,” Jonah Goldberg offers the right-wing delusional view of the deep state after which states it doesn’t exist.
However there’s a deep state, and it’s alive and nicely.
It consists of the roughly 3 million women and men who both work for the federal authorities or serve within the navy. The one factor all of them share is an oath of workplace that features a pledge to “shield and defend the Structure in opposition to all enemies, overseas and home.”
In its preamble, the Structure could be very express about who it serves: “we the folks.”
The federal government and all of its capabilities, departments and businesses belong to we the folks. The workers of all of these departments work for the advantage of we the folks. They don’t serve a celebration or particular person; they serve we the folks.
Each company has a corporation chart, a series of command, which the staff comply with solely as far as orders are per the Structure and established legislation.
An election selects the chief govt and the board of administrators — the president and members of Congress. However these elected officers don’t personal the federal government; we the folks retain full possession. An election isn’t a hostile takeover with new possession.
Norman Rodewald, Moorpark
