Cloaks and Daggers

They found a bunch of classified documents in Joe's garage. I'm not sure who "they" are, but it doesn't matter. What matters is that someone outside the control of Joe and his gang went into his garage to find the documents.

Some may say that this proves that the system is working, but that's only true if we believe that a functioning government has to include agencies outside the control of elected officials. No-one elected the guys who went into Joe's garage. They are therefore an example of the sort of autonomous agents that western governments are increasingly full of.

Elected officials have close to no power. They can hardly do a thing without the approval of a myriad of bureaucrats and agents, mostly under the control of unelected figures. If an agency finds that something has to be done about an elected official, that agency's entire apparatus is set into motion in order to get this done.

When it comes to the particulars of this case, it's evident that the discovery of classified documents on Joe's private property is particularly convenient for anyone who wants to get rid of Joe, and also prevent Trump from ever running for president again. If they manage to indict Joe based on this, they can turn around and say that Trump too has to go. They are then in a position to install whoever else they find convenient at this time.

I'm not going to make any predictions based on this. There's simply too many feuding agents and agencies involved, and none of us have the insights to say who may be in a position of advantage. The outcome is never a given when it comes to this kind of fights. Joe may manage to hold onto his position, as Trump did. He may be tossed out in favour of Harris, or there may be some other outcome planned. It all comes down to what some unelected official decides after the fighting is over.

What we're witnessing is the beast described in the Bible, always at war with itself and everybody else. The only sensible way to deal with it is to stay away from it and feed it as little as possible. No election and no reform will ever kill it. Once awakened, there's no way back. Only God, aka nature, will eventually deal with it.

Mask of the beast