It’s not question-begging. DC is a place where, when democrats win, a million Democrat-supporting civil servants work hard to advance the agenda. And when republicans win, some outright rebel, while most just drag their feet and wait for a democrat to come back into office. Harris and Trump got 60-40 in Little Bangladesh in Queens New York, but it was 90-6 in DC. That’s not democracy. It needs to be fixed.

Unfortunately, this is true of a vast range of our institutions—they have abandoned their traditional institutional principles and become progressive advocacy organizations. For example, the ABA is peddling sovereign-citizen level legal conspiracy theories these days: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/women/initiativ...

I looked through the SFFA amicus briefs. Though the winning side was legally correct and also supported by a supermajority of the public, I noticed that every major legal organization and every large law firm was on the losing side that most Americans oppose. We find ourselves in a position where our institutions must be rebuilt from the ground up to regain the public trust.

Civil servants don't vote for the party that constantly lies about and shits on them? Astonishing.

Nor was I aware that the ABA was part of the government. It's this sort of high quality analysis that keeps me coming back to HN.

Thinking that everyone in a federal job or benefitting from those big bad grants are all in one party is some massive ignorance that takes a lot of brainwashing on right wing media to accomplish. They won't understand until it affects someone they know. By then musk will have diverted a lot of spending to his own companies with the doge fraud.