I think that there's a un-elected bureaucracy and then there're elected officials. I don't really have a problem with the elected officials trying to persuade.

I think that there's a un-elected bureaucracy and then there're elected officials. I don't really have a problem with the elected officials trying to persuade. I don't have a huge problem with them trying to persuade using the bureaucracy as a tool. Sometimes though it seems like the tool has a mind of it's own. That it either has it's own agenda or doesn't heel to the agenda of the elected officials. All policies aside this seems like a terrible thing - it's a direct path back to having all bureaucrats be political appointees.