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Originally Posted by WarChild
Do you honestly believe that "the goverment" is some giant continuing body working only in its own best interests? You think when a new President is elected the the old one takes him aside and gives him a little talking to?
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A couple of months ago there was an interesting documentary on the History Chanel about a Jewish woman living in Nazi-Germany. To survive she pretended to be Aryan and married a Nazi officer. To get an id, she took some falsified papers to a local government office, where some bureaucrat reviewed everything. That bureaucrat had the power to decide who lived ad who died... the only thing he had to do was approve or deny an application.
After the war, she wanted to reclaim her old/true identity. She took her real documents (diploma's etc) to the same government office... and guess what. That bureaucrat still had the same job...
The state is a complex structure... Not everyone is replaced every 4 or 5 years. Not everyone needs to know everything, not everyone knows everything... If you want to control things or influence things you only need the right people in the right places....