Entry 2417, on 2025-11-06 at 21:25:07 (Rating 3, Politics)
An issue which has been mentioned by many commentators from several parts of the world recently is the effect of the actions of senior bureaucrats on how countries are being run. Some people like to refer to them as the "deep state" although this has too much of a conspiracy feel to it for my liking!
When you understand this concept a lot of things start making sense, so let me give a few more details. The bureaucrats I am referring to are senior civil servants (the "servants" part of that description is particularly ironic) who like to make their own rules and run their own ideologically driven "empires" instead of following the requirements of democratically elected leaders.
Of course, as you might know after reading this blog, I dislike the idea of leaders, and would prefer for them not to exist at all, but if they do, at least let's make sure that those with the greatest power to control our lives can be voted in and out by the citizens.
So in New Zealand we have a number of people in charge of ministries and other large institutions who avoid any changes imposed by the government if they don't like them. These tend to be particularly in the area of changes which negate the previous woke zeitgeist which these people might have been appointed under, or which they might favour for other reasons.
This occurs more obviously in some areas than others. For example those in education, who are notoriously politically left, tend to avoid instructions from more center to right governments like our current administration in New Zealand, particularly when those instructions are contrary to their woke ideology. This happens especially in relation to indigenous issues, and other trendy matters such as climate change, Palestine, and trans.
Other problematic areas include the courts (where the legal profession seems to be badly infected with the woke mind virus), the health system, universities (of course), and several others.
And it's not just here that this happens. In the US, especially during Trump's first term as president, there was considerable failure to cooperate with his policies. And the Tories failure to carry out many conservative policies in the UK can also partly be attributes to this, although their PMs, such as Boris, seemed to be rather too woke by choice!
Now at this point you might be thinking that it is good when the wishes of Nazis, fascist, and demagogues like Trump are ignored or avoided, but think about it: would you say the same thing if the roles were reversed? If the government was left-wing and the bureaucracy was conservative, would you be happy if they ignored instructions from the government, even if I labelled that government as communists, ignoramuses, or extremists? No, I didn't think so.
Whatever your (or my) opinions of the different sides of politics are, we need to accept that the left and right correct each others' excesses and we need them both. But if only one side (whichever it is) can carry out their agenda while in power then that balance is destroyed. Also, in a democracy, we need to accept that the government has been elected to do a job, and if unelected officials are stopping that from happening then we have a problem.
There's a very obvious anti-government bias in New Zealand right now, especially amongst teachers. I've heard senior education people making the most absurd claims, which seem to have no basis in reality, and they all seem to be anti-government. No matter how bad a government is (and I don't think this one is much better or worse than most) there will always be some positive things they do, but we never seem to hear about anything the education elites like.
A lot of this negativity can be blamed on the legacy media as well, of course, which is another area of our society which is hopelessly left biased. Their political preferences make the situation even worse.
Finally, it might seem that I am suggesting that the bureaucrats who are causing all the problems are all politically left, but if the opposite was true I woud be criticising that equally. Don't believe me? Then have a look back a decade or two in this blog when the right was out of control and I supported the left more. You will see it's not left versus right which I am complaining about: it is bureaucracy versus democracy!
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