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The "unelected" bit is inflammatory.

It implies that the bureaucratic apparatus of the state could have been a bunch of elected people, and some dastardly force has pushed these unelected jerks into positions of power over the people.

But the vast majority of federal government positions are not elected positions. Of course the people in those positions were not elected to them.

These "unelected bureaucrats" work for agencies established through the rule of law. They operate under regulations established through the rule of law. They implement the processes, policies, and procedures they have been directed to do through the rule of law.

And get this - the people who made those laws - they were elected!



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