George Washington didn’t serve eight years of ass-kissing in the local D.C. scene to climb a political ladder.
Jefferson? Adams? Hell, they were citizen-soldiers and thinkers.
The Founders envisioned a republic where average citizens would take a short break from their regular lives to serve the country and return to their farms, shops, or blacksmiths’ anvils.
They never wanted career politicians bent over; trading favors for a chance to sit higher up the totem pole.
But here we are, drowning in a swamp of professional bureaucrats so deeply embedded in their posts you’d need a pry bar to dislodge them and I hope that’s what Elon will do, take a pry bar to all of the sewer barnacles in DC.
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