The Company One Keeps

(The Company One Keeps)

A Presidential adviser can be a most important position. Those that are chosen to staff an Administration can be some of the more consequential roles one could have. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his War Cabinet with Hull at State, Stimson at War, Knox at Navy, General Marschall at Army Chief of Staff, Admiral King as Chief of Naval Operations.


All competent men who proceeded to win a War. And that was a War to be won. The members in the Biden Administration, however, can make no such claims. Not just Buttigieg but Granholm at Energy, or Garland at Justice, and whoever runs EPA. Mayorkas at Homeland Security. What has been pointed out is these are less government officials and more activists. Now, the traditional definition of public service would be to serve the public. How is the mis-management of East Palestine count as public service ?


As so-called "activists," these people are neglecting the public good. They are on board with the Administration and what its ambitions might be especially with regards to the environment but in the collective zeal of this pursuit, the average person has more immediate economic concerns and do not necessarily share Biden's aim. But, are these "aims" the President's or are they what he is being told they are.


All the President's men ? It can be common for yes people and sycophants to comprise a White House and Cabinet but it can be rare for the sycophant to be the President himself.

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