No, many Americans think they do not prefer the deep state, because they do not realize how good they actually have it. A successful marketing campaign by the corporate government has played off their over inflated sense of self-independence and entitlement, to convince them that the problem with bureaucratic authoritarianism was the bureaucracy and not the authoritarianism. Now that bureaucracy, meaning the last little shred of nominally democratic government, is on the chopping block in favor of full blown corporate authoritarianism. And if you think the deep state was entrenched...
All politics is preference though, and the issue is that all bureaucracy fails to have a function that shrinks itself. We already spend about $0.25T paying people or entities that don’t exist according to the accountability office…
Sure, as a libertarian I'm well read on the failings of bureaucracy. As I said, the deep mistake here is letting our frustrations with bureaucratic authoritarianism be pinned on the bureaucratic aspect rather than on the authoritarian aspect. We're all acquainted with being on the wrong personal side of a committee member who is then able to vindictively hold up your application. Getting rid of the bureaucracy in favor of autocratic authoritarianism just drops the pretense of impartiality.
And sure, the resources spent on make-work bureaucracy running would be better used elsewhere, even if it was just paying people to walk through their local parks and pick up litter. But we're pretty bad at resource allocation, especially resources from that centralized fountain of new money that seems to be necessary due to Gresham's law. So make-work paper pushing is still better than just giving those resources to asset holders via banks bidding up the everything bubble. Given that those resources are going to be somewhat wasted somehow, the authoritarianism seems like the more important part to be focusing on.
(as for the numbers from the Ministry of LLM Slop, understanding is harder than generation, so I don't see the point of trying to scrutinize them rather than doing a good faith analysis to begin with)
