Yet we live in an era where \u201cnorms and laws<\/a>\u201d are not just political obstacles, but outright tools of irredeemable evil. The application of \u201claws equally and in an even handed manner<\/a>\u201d must be tossed aside in the name of \u201cwinning<\/a>\u201d and then \u201ccrushing\u201d one\u2019s enemies. This is just the natural result of declaring that there are \u201cno rules<\/a>\u201d and one\u2019s side can only win by dominating over one\u2019s political enemies.<\/p>\n We get to the point where we no longer even expect government employees to do their job in service or under the direction of the policymakers, but to become policy shapers<\/em> themselves, with \u201cneutral\u201d employees being limited to technical minions like code monkeys or lab monkeys. Having someone with institutional and technical knowledge running analyses, laboratories, &c., under a President\u2019s policy,<\/em> is, in fact, desirable. When you deal with some part of the Federal Government, there ought to be an expectation that you will be treated fairly and according to the law with neutral rules; you should not have to second guess if you are being targeted by some partisan political apparatchik.<\/p>\n It is with this new governing philosophy that we should view a memorandum from the Office of Personnel Management declaring<\/a> that senior executive service government positions are \u201c[n]o longer the station of impartial and apolitical technocrats<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n A President is served by an objective civil service who, while under the direction of a President\u2019s policy, are not themselves shapers of policy. Being shapers of policy is exactly the problem, and an apparatchik remains apparatchik regardless of whether he or she is hired via<\/em> civil service laws or appointed by another apparatchik higher up on the organizational chart.<\/p>\n Sometimes, a neutral<\/em> analysis is necessary to assess or implement political policy. Bending facts and analysis is, again, the exact problem memoranda like the one above were purportedly promulgated to combat. \u00a0 An administration\u2019s own bias and policy preference can act as blinders that narrow their vision and compromise their ability to govern. The problem lies not in who chooses the apparatchik, but with the very nature of an apparatchik as an apparatchik.<\/p>\n The true folly of this approach lies in it\u2019s extent of replacing every sinew of the body politic with motive will from the head of Leviathan. Even in a human body, many functions are automatic, as much as we may be able to shape them for good or ill. In the short term you get your immediate policy preferences implemented. In the long run, you get replacement every new administration, or at least change in partisan control of the White House.<\/p>\n This results in lack of institutional knowledge, with each not administration needing to reinvent the wheel, or otherwise subjecting the people to ever changing arbitrary and capricious bureaucrats on any time scale longer than a major election.<\/p>\n This, in turn, could only be countered by outsourcing such decisions and future politicized employee training to\u2026 who know? And isn\u2019t that<\/em> how you get a Deep State?<\/p>\n The full memorandum can be read here<\/a>, or below:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Warhammer-40K-Commissar.jpg\")
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