Yes, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to Plodcast, episode 11.

Good to have you here. So I want to talk a little bit about the

deep state. As those who follow the news have seen night after night,

President Trump is in an ongoing tangle with Washington's bureaucrats

and with bureaucrats and people involved with the various intelligence

gathering agencies.

And Trump has fought with tweets and actions he's proposed and the deep state has fought back by means of leaks.

All right, so the thing that I want to talk about here has nothing to do with defending the president or arguing his position or

carrying any water for him. I want to assume that President Trump could be President Clinton, could be President Bush,

you know, whatever President, put in whatever last name you want to put in there. It is manifest that our intelligence

agencies have been politicized.

In other words, if this were done to any president,

as it happened, I didn't vote for our current president.

I didn't vote for president Trump,

didn't vote for the previous president and so this is not a

partisan point that I'm making. What I'm arguing is that the state, basically the executive agencies,

the executive branch of government is not elected by the people and because it's not elected by the

people it ought not to have it ought not to have any business trying to steer public policy.

It doesn't matter who you are.

So, for example, when we are told that we need to extend the Patriot Act, or we need to give

intelligence gathering agencies greater and greater power in order to protect us from the terrorists in order to

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