The fight over DOGE is both entertaining and instructive. 

Entertaining because we get to see Democrats go crazy doing backflips to explain why USAID funding underwater basket weaving in Algeria is vital to the projection of American power and saving the lives of starving children, and instructive because we get to see what really motivates politicians who have hidden behind platitudes for decades. 

This video put together by Newsbusters captures the reality of what Democrats are doing perfectly. 

When you use AI to replace every mention of "our democracy" with "our bureaucracy," everything starts making a lot more sense. pic.twitter.com/XZ65HXfN9H

— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) November 5, 2024

Democrats have been "weaponizing" the term "democracy" against Republicans for a long time now. It is a word that sounds good to most Americans because they (not quite rightly) think that is our proper form of government. Defending "democracy" definitely sounds good, so Democrats say it. 

But of course they don't like Democracy; they like money and power, and the money and power they mostly control is through the government bureaucracy. The video works because with one simple trick you can decode the Democrat spin. 

David Sacks put it well:

Although this started as a meme, it’s the single most important thing to understand about our politics. When Democrats say that DOGE is a “threat to democracy”, what they really mean is that it’s a threat to bureaucracy. When Democrats say that they want to “protect democracy”, what they really mean is that they want to protect the bureaucracy. 92% of Washington DC voted for Kamala Harris. The Democrats are the party of bureaucracy, and they use that bureaucracy to fund aligned NGOs, media groups, and ultimately themselves. Their goal is to make the bureaucracy immune from democratic transparency and accountability. The last thing they want is to see corruption exposed because it can only lead back to them.

DOGE is a mortal threat to the bureaucracy, and as such, it is a mortal threat to the money and power the Democrats have controlled since the New Deal. 

Most Democrat politicians--not all, but most--are utterly indifferent to the results of any particular project or program. The ideal model for a government program would be the California high-speed rail project, which spends billions on autopilot, feathering beds for generations. That a train never gets built is a feature, not a bug. The only reason anybody actually DOES anything at all is that they need an excuse to keep the money spigot turned on. 

The longer it goes, the less efficient it is, and the more waste that can be generated, the better. 

Homelessness in California serves the same purpose. Homelessness was a problem in the 1970s. The 1980s. The 1990s. The 2000s. The 2010s. And so on. Political fortunes have been made by promising to end homelessness. We are now in the 20-somethingth year of Gavin Newsom's 10-year plan to eradicate homelessness in San Francisco. 

This year marks year 16 of Gavin Newsom's "10 year plan to end homelessness."

$24 Billion later homelessness has actually managed to get WORSE in California.

Californians, do yourselves a favor and stop voting for this clown. pic.twitter.com/eMK5V22pQ5

— FRΞΞ PRINCΞ (@tyrannideris) July 22, 2024

Billions have been spent. Lots of NGOs have fed lots of NGO bureaucrats' families off these promises. And more people are dying on the streets than ever. 

It is a grift. Government exists for the bureaucrats and the NGOs. The "programs" are just excuses to tax and spend, go to conferences, and climb the government/nonprofit ladder. 

Government and NGOs are to the Democrats what startups are to the tech industry: the source of wealth. The difference is that government can compel you to "purchase" their product and startups actually have to provide some value or fail.