1 And in 2024, 2026, 2028... That may help, but the real problem is the un-elected bureaucrats who actually run the country. And as far as I know, there's no legal way to get rid of them -- if you know what I'm saying.

2 We should never have allowed the bureaucracy  to become permanent. It made a fourth branch of government.

3 Agreed, except how can the bureaucracy be prevented from being established? On a certain level, some of it is needed. But it becomes like cockroaches; it burrows in everywhere.

4 Dana, it used to be most of the bureaucracy was patronage; you lost your job when the administration you served was turned out. This made for corruption to some degree, but it was better because you didn't have a permanent bureaucratic class. Now with a "professional" bureaucracy we have a huge segment that votes solidly for Democrats and who work against the wishes of the American People on a regular basis - and even against their own bosses, who are powerless to remove them.

I remember in the early days of the pandemic when Trump gave the no-entry order from China; a bureaucrat simply ignored Trump and let a bunch of Chinese in anyway. The guy was an Obama appointee. I had a big fight with a liberal who blamed Trump for this! I tried to point out that Trump was powerless to stop this order because he couldn't fire the jackass and of course that was met with a sneer. But it's why we are in the pickle we are in, in no small measure.

That is why the Founding Fathers wanted a limited Executive Branch. In fact, there was an argument about even having a Cabinet in the early days. They rightly understood that a powerful Executive Branch meant the potential for tyranny. They were right.

5 And of course when they unionized the Federal bureaucracy in the '70's they built in a permanent ruling class. The Democrats knew that was what they were doing too.

6 For all the good unions did, and still do, they also deliver a great deal of harm. It used to be accepted that public sector unions were a bad idea; George Meany and FDR were against them all the way.