A slightly older Dr. Malone column, which I’ve been waiting to present here. It’s gonna be hard to condense it down.
Crisis is Opportunity
On the doorstep of a fifth-generation warfare civil war. #PsyWar Civil War.
We are now in a fifth-generation warfare civil war, which has been building up to this point for quite a while now. Whether or not you are aware of this is irrelevant.
The territory being fought over is your mind.
This is now rising to the level of becoming a crisis. However, coexisting with every crisis, there are opportunities for those willing and able to see.
Those who lost the election in the popular vote and electoral college now actively seek to overturn and obstruct the will of the electorate through nefarious means. For example, House Democrats … are trying to form a “shadow government” to defy and undermine President Trump’s authority. The Democratic Party and their surrogates in corporate media are trying to lead an unconstitutional “insurrection” against President Trump.
The other day, I was on a Zoom teleconference with the International Crisis Summit team… I suddenly realized that we are in the midst of a second Civil War. Only it is not a kinetic war. It is an information war. A Fifth Generation Warfare-based Civil War, to be technically precise.
[Brief description of the three branches of our government] Donald Trump has just been elected as the next US President, heading up the executive branch. For the most part, the executive branch is where the bureaucracy resides.
Senate Consent to Presidential Appointments
According to Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, the President has the power to nominate federal officers, subject to the Senate’s consent. This provision ensures a system of checks and balances between the executive and legislative branches.
- The President nominates federal officers, including Ambassadors, public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States.
- The Senate provides “advice and consent” on these nominations, which has been interpreted as allowing it to reject or confirm the President’s choices.
- The Constitution does not grant Congress the power to exercise the appointment power directly; instead, it limits Congress’s role to advising and consenting on the President’s nominations.
The Framers aimed to prevent tyranny by dividing the appointment power between the President and the Senate….
The Appointments Clause serves as a restraint on Congress, preventing it from exercising the appointment power or circumventing the President’s authority….
… the President has a relatively small number of politically appointed associates. The US Constitution states that the US Senate has the right and duty to advise and consent to those appointments,… In the case of the Presidential appointments, this “advice and consent” role has evolved into a lengthy vetting process in which Senators are actively lobbied by …(“Lobbyists”) to either agree to or attempt to block presidential appointments… But with Presidential appointments, the system has developed into high art Kabuki theater in which appointees are typically subjected to a variety of character assassination attacks …designed to deny their appointment,…
[Malone points out that due to the 17th Amendment, Senators no longer represent their state governments, but are now political actors representing themselves, including their “advise and consent” role. The current situation includes political cabals attempting to establish a “shadow government” and attempting to stymie Trump’s picks for his executive positions. This takes the form of smearing reputations via disinformation, slander, etc.]
… In other words, to engage in fifth-generation warfare skirmishes to deny the elected incoming President his chosen staff.
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My point in sharing this is that there are many good people in the FDA bureaucracy who have become quite frustrated with the way things are, and (if approached openly and professionally) are willing to work “across the aisle” to enable reforms….
[Malone discusses the use of crisis to bring cohesive forces to bear, and not just be used to divide and conquer.]
The US government and administrative state face multiple internal and external threats. The greatest of those is the federal deficit and debt, resulting from decades of mismanagement by both political parties. Without resorting to … the infinite range of psychological warfare weapons now available, we should be able to put aside our differences and unify around this common enemy. Now is the time for the grownups to step up and set an example of professionalism and to focus on the task at hand. … And we don’t need temper tantrums from those who could not convince a majority of the American public of the merit of their plans, perspectives, and arguments.
We need to be civil to each other. For if we don’t hang together, we shall certainly hang separately.
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