The Self-Delusion of the American Political Establishment
By Steve McCann
Washington
D.C. is not just a city of monuments, museums and millions of square
feet of buildings housing a preponderance of left-leaning overpaid
bureaucrats complaining about how hard they work, it is also the home of
the American Political Establishment (APE). This monolithic body has
evolved over the past eighty years as an ever increasing amount of
political power once delegated to the states and the people has been
seized by the federal government. Within this entity are two branches:
the senior partner -- the Democratic Establishment -- and the junior partner -- the Republican Establishment.
There
are no offices on Connecticut Avenue in Washington with signs reading
"The Republican Establishment" or the "The Democratic Establishment";
rather both are an amalgam of like-minded groups with one common
interest: the control of the government purse-strings and the attendant
influence and ego-gratification that brings about.
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