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 Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
Because if the government was out of control, you'd have a situation not unlike Chávez Frías/Castro/The Kim-Jong's/Erdogan/Putin/Pinochet/Afewerki/al-Assad/al-Bashir/Mugabe/Mbasogo/Karimov/Zanawi Asres etc.
It's definitely not like those situations atm in the US, the corruption though (highlighted by Trump's ironic cabinet picks despite claims of "draining the swamp" during his campaign)
"Out of control" only consists of the most extreme scenarios?
When I think of out of control, I think of things like taxes going from the intended ~<5% to ~50% in order to pay people to be less productive. Or regulations increasing by 1000000whateverX and providing little to no real protection. For the Intel Community to be out of control, government itself probably has to be out of control in the first place. Can you think of some other way a corrupt IC would get its funding and legitimacy?
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