Storied By Josh

The bureaucracy of a democracy operates on a level of veracity that cannot be duplicated in any other form of government or even industry.

There is no marketing to a DMV line, no propaganda to the post office. No one gets rich. The people are served, however seemingly inefficient. It is only due to the transparency inherent of democracy to see and demand accountability.

To suggest that industry intervention would somehow benefit the consumer while simultaneously enriching the elites is a foundational misunderstanding of the zero sum of capitalism. Mutual benefit may arise but is a side effect, not the goal.

To wit, capitalism is often a necessary evil, it encourages mass consumerism, but often the cost is cannibalism. It must extract money from the consumer, cheaply. Reduce the workforce then. Economic security disappears. The consumer is relegated to breadlines, who can it extract money from? It is innate to its nature. Thus it must be brought to heel by bureaucracy if the people are to be protected from exploitation. Another department created.

This is a maddening proposition for the preTrump conservative, if they even exist anymore. Capitalism and industry was meant to be a godsend, an antidote to the poison of DMV lines, CDC science jargon, and FEMA authority.

Unfortunately the obfuscation worked, the snake ate its tail and the middle class disappeared. Who shall be blamed? The theocrat swapped Jesus for capitalism only for their new god to exploit them. Yet they could not blame the old gods, it would be blasphemy. Ever disloyal they turned instead to a nationalist racism, encouraged by aging racists, only a few decades separated from throwing shoes at little black girls trying to go to school.

Still the new privatized “UMV” lines grew, food was poisoned, the poor lost jobs, customer service disappeared to ai, and private mail carriers lost packages. Only missing was transparency and checks and balances, ie, veracity. Marketing could only cover the transgressions of the rich until the poors’ stomach growled.

Public bureaucracy was inefficient, true but instead the consumer had to contend with a different kind of efficiency, industry is not there to serve the people, only to extract their money and once there was a monopoly, their approval wasn’t a necessity.

As they were cannibalized the consumer looked for a reason, however invalid. The elite was more than happy to offer a victimized few: the colored immigrant. History, if taught honestly would have been an antidote to the inveiglement. But it wasn’t.

Unwilling to commit capital to a lost cause the elite allowed bureaucracy to take charge of the deportation and torture of the defenseless immigrant. Unsurprisingly it did this inefficiently, but it was no matter. Sometimes in order to make a little money, one had to crack a few eggs. Besides, if the masses revolted, the military would cow it.