The Long March Through the Institutions, Step 5: Capture of the Government Itself

Is the IRS the final straw? Have we been checkmated?

But what if the combination of increasingly activist government with strong bureacratic bias re-creates federal service as a kind of permanent spoils system for the Left? Isn’t it inevitable that this leftist bureaucracy will eventually view itself not as a servant for all citizens but as an instrument of its own righteous ideology? 

If the recent history of our universities is any guide, the products of a leftist bureacratic monoculture will be characterized by the following: 

Ignorance: Groups of like-minded people are notoriously incurious about the ideas and perspectives of dissenters. 

Condescension: They don’t let ignorance stand in the way of a bulletproof sense of moral and intellectual superiority. 

Hatred: Since all the good people they know agree with them, they ascribe the worst of motives to the other side, believing them to be motivated by little more than greed and bigotry. 

And, finally . . . 

Fanaticism: Cass Sunstein described the ”law of group polarization” like this: “In a striking empirical regularity, deliberation tends to move groups, and the individuals who compose them, toward a more extreme point in the direction indicated by their own predeliberation judgments.” In other words, when like-minded individuals deliberate, their common views grow more extreme over time.

GEORGE WILL:

As soon as the Constitution permitted him to run for Congress, Al Salvi did. In 1986, just 26 and fresh from the University of Illinois law school, he sank $1,000 of his own money, which was most of his money, into a campaign to unseat an incumbent Democratic congressman. Salvi studied for the bar exam during meals at campaign dinners. 

He lost. Today, however, he should be invited to Congress to testify about what happened 10 years later when as a prosperous lawyer he won the Republican Senate nomination to run against a Democratic congressman named Dick Durbin. 

In the fall of 1996, at the campaign's climax, Democrats filed with the Federal Elections Commission charges alleging campaign finance violations by Salvi's campaign. These charges dominated the campaign's closing days. Salvi spoke by phone with the head of the FEC's Enforcement Division, who he remembers saying: "Promise me you will never run for office again, and we'll drop this case." He was speaking to Lois Lerner. 

After losing to Durbin, Salvi spent four years and $100,000 fighting the FEC, on whose behalf FBI agents visited his elderly mother demanding to know, concerning her $2,000 contribution to her son's campaign, where she got "that kind of money." When the second of two federal courts held that the charges against Salvi were spurious, the lawyer arguing for the FEC was Lois Lerner.
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Lerner, it is prudent to assume, is one among thousands like her who infest the regulatory state. She is not just a bureaucratic bully and a slithering partisan; she also is a national security problem, because she is contributing to a comprehensive distrust of government.
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The case against the NSA is: Lois Lerner and others of her ilk.

IRS Accountants are members of the National Treasury Employees Union.

Being that they are Union, it is in their best interest to vote Left, lean Left, be Left.

If one is to ascend in the ranks of the IRS, more often than not, they start Union.

Therefore, gradually, we have marched into 2013 and we find that 95% of IRS workers are Leftists, willing to fuck over their fellow Americans if their bosses tell them too.

After all, what about their pensions?

They were only following orders.