Jonah Goldberg makes this very good point about the IRS scandal and the self generating noxious parasite of bureaucracy - if the corruption and abuse was not roused and enacted at the behest of Obama and his maenads - which I think it was otherwise, in the wake of the lost emails absurdity, heads would be rolling in order to protect themselves from the growing perception that it was - but if not done under orders from Washington then that would mean the IRS all on its own has morphed into a rights and free speech destroying monster lashing out at all those who do not share in or bow down before its ideological preferences - and that might be a scarier thing than if this abuse is just another manifestation of lawlessness and disdain for democracy from Dear Leader and his sycophants.
In much the same way that a cancer propagates itself by destroying its host, bureaucracies serve their own interests by promoting the cause of big government at the expense of everyone else and the body politick which sustains it. I'm sure many of these bureaucrats believe they're doing good - indeed, they would have to believe that for to think otherwise would be self defeating and so as with any absolute faith the suppression of dissent, of impure thoughts becomes an obligation - but the small good they do serve is achieved with such great inefficiency that the harm done is not worth the benefit - any attempt to change or impede this dynamic would immediately be seen as a threat for the fact is inefficiency is necessarily baked into the system, bureaucracies need to be bloated in order to protect themselves - five people doing a job one person could do easily or even worse doing a job for which there is no need equals power at the ballot box. That's the evil empire Democrats are busily constructing in order to enshrine progressivism as something of a state religion that cannot be challenged - and the IRS has either been enlisted as or volunteered to become its storm troopers.
In much the same way that a cancer propagates itself by destroying its host, bureaucracies serve their own interests by promoting the cause of big government at the expense of everyone else and the body politick which sustains it. I'm sure many of these bureaucrats believe they're doing good - indeed, they would have to believe that for to think otherwise would be self defeating and so as with any absolute faith the suppression of dissent, of impure thoughts becomes an obligation - but the small good they do serve is achieved with such great inefficiency that the harm done is not worth the benefit - any attempt to change or impede this dynamic would immediately be seen as a threat for the fact is inefficiency is necessarily baked into the system, bureaucracies need to be bloated in order to protect themselves - five people doing a job one person could do easily or even worse doing a job for which there is no need equals power at the ballot box. That's the evil empire Democrats are busily constructing in order to enshrine progressivism as something of a state religion that cannot be challenged - and the IRS has either been enlisted as or volunteered to become its storm troopers.
