February 16, 2021
How Your Government Really Works
By John Dietrich
Some of the harshest critics of government corruption are thoroughly corrupt – and everyone in the upper reaches of government is complicit due to their silence.
I spent over 40 years in government service. I don't consider myself an expert on the subject but after 40 years you cannot avoid acquiring a more than basic knowledge of a subject. One of the lessons I learned is that knowledge is power. There are people in government who keep their ears to the ground in order to gain as much knowledge as possible. I was not one of them, but I could not avoid learning who was sleeping with whom and other supposedly private matters. An example of this lesson: a coworker of mine walked into a chief's office while he was on the couch with a woman who was not his wife. I should not have to clarify that they were in a horizontal position. This coworker was shortly promoted to supervisor and transferred to what I suspect was an ideal location. Ambitious people pay attention.
The higher reaches of powerful organizations are composed of ambitious people who are not necessarily competent in the areas they are responsible for, but they are aware of the situations that will advance their careers. The current situation with the Lincoln Project illustrates this point. The Lincoln Project claims to be "holding accountable those who would violate their oaths to the Constitution and would put others before Americans." That's a pretty noble endeavor. One of the founders of this group, John Weaver, resigned after charges of sexual harassment which included a 14-year-old boy.
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