To the editor: In his column differentiating between the “swamp” and the “deep state,” Jonah Goldberg provides 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 properly.
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, international and home.”
In its preamble, the Structure could be very specific about who it serves: “we the folks.”
The federal government and all of its features, departments and companies belong to we the folks. The workers of all of these departments work for the good thing about we the folks. They don’t serve a celebration or individual; they serve we the folks.
Each company has a company chart, a sequence of command, which the staff comply with solely as far as orders are in keeping with 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 is just not a hostile takeover with new possession.
Norman Rodewald, Moorpark
