Question about the true powers of our POTUS

[MrScorpio]

4. I spent over seven years working at the Pentagon.

I was there during the span of three separate administrations. The only constant in Washington DC is the federal bureaucracy. Which is nothing more than a collection of smaller ones.

Its first objective of any bureaucracy is to both perpetuate and expand itself and the only way that one can fight any bureaucracy is with an even bigger one.

Presidents know that they only have a short time in office. However, once starting out, most of them think that they can fight the existing bureaucracies in DC. It's nothing more than foolishness. Even the smallest of these bureaucracies are more powerful and persistent than they look.

Presidents are more like custodians when it comes to Washington bureaucracies. They're there to clear up the messes, nothing more. Any effort to oppose them usually makes these bureaucracies more formidable than they already are, because once they are under attack, they have a way of drawing invested parties to their defense. Most of them are obscure and small, doing their business without a lot of attention and fanfare, and they'd rather stay that way.

Oversite is the biggest joke in Washington, because its the interests which the bureaucracies govern who actually control the committees, not the other way around. Control of Congress is done through an arcane network of campaign contributions and investment within key districts. Basically, if you're in Congress, you're bought and paid for and the bureaucracies are the conduit for the entire arrangement.

America, my friend, is not a democracy, it's an oligarchy.