Washington, DC, is riddled with parasites sucking the life out of our nation.

Time for a thorough deworming.

Jonathan Rauch, in a book by the same name, called it “demosclerosis.” 

Mancur Olson, in his classic “The Rise and Decline of Nations,” called it a “web of special interests.”

I call it the “parasite class.” 

All refer to a collection of bureaucrats, lobbyists, contractors, nonprofits, non-governmental organizations and connected unions and corporations that have increasingly run our federal government for their own benefit, fattening themselves with the help of diverted taxpayer dollars.