In the grand tradition of uniquely stupid American ideas, the 1990s gifted us a real gem: “If you’re smart, you go to college. If you’re not, well… enjoy your life as blue-collar swine.” You see, back then, society collectively decided that manual labor was for idiots, and that all the “real thinkers” needed to be crammed into universities, regardless of whether they had any actual intellectual ability. The result? A flood of mediocre minds who had no business being in a place of higher learning but were too proud to pick up a wrench.
And what did these C-average pseudo-intellectuals do once they realized they had neither the discipline for engineering nor the brainpower for medicine? They flocked to the great academic landfill known as political science.
Political Science: The Official Major of People Who Have No Plan
Political science was the safety net for the directionless—the trash can of college degrees, where students with no discernible skills could write some fluffy papers, memorize a few vague theories, and emerge with a degree that sounded impressive to grandma but meant absolutely nothing. It was the intellectual equivalent of a participation trophy.
And while everyone else was busy actually learning things that mattered—like accounting, nursing, or how to wire a house without setting it on fire—these political science graduates stayed in academia, avoiding the real world at all costs. That is, until they realized their only viable career option was government bureaucracy.
Congratulations, Bureaucrats! You Are the Problem
Fast forward a few decades, and now we have a nation governed by the most over-credentialed, under-qualified ruling class in history. These political science grads—who never had to meet a deadline outside a college paper extension—are now the ones running government agencies, writing policies, and creating rules that make life miserable for the rest of us.
• They regulate industries they don’t understand.
• They enforce policies that don’t affect them.
• They pat themselves on the back for “helping the poor” while sipping $7 lattes and telecommuting from their three-bedroom home in Arlington.
And the best part? They see themselves as the educated elite, despite the fact that most of them couldn’t assemble a piece of IKEA furniture without a task force and a grant from the Department of Labor.
Why Fix Anything When You Can Just Create More Rules?
These bureaucrats don’t have to worry about economic downturns, because their jobs exist no matter how much they fail. They are permanently employed—floating above the rest of us in their world of Zoom meetings and government pensions.
• When they shut down entire industries, their jobs aren’t at risk.
• When they tank the economy, they just get a budget increase.
• When they screw up a program, they write a report blaming “systemic issues” and then create another useless committee to solve the problem they created.
The Delusion of the Political Science Bureaucrat
Perhaps the most infuriating part of all this is that these people genuinely believe they are helping. From their perch in government cubicles, they craft thousands of pages of regulations that suffocate businesses, strangle innovation, and drive up the cost of everything—all while insisting they are “making a difference”.
They don’t have to worry about these policies affecting their lives because they never have to live under the rules they create. The guy making $200K at the EPA regulating farmers doesn’t have to worry about feeding his family. The state bureaucrat in charge of small business licensing has never actually run a business.
They have never built anything. They have never risked anything. They have never worked outside of the comfortable, taxpayer-funded safety net they created for themselves. But they sure as hell will tell you how to run your life.
The Inevitable Collapse of the Bureaucratic Class
Like all top-heavy, self-important ruling classes throughout history, this one will eventually collapse under the weight of its own incompetence. The bureaucrats don’t know how to fix things—only how to write more memos. And while they keep piling on more regulations, actual problems go unsolved.
• Crime? Don’t enforce the law—just fund another awareness campaign.
• Energy shortages? Mandate electric cars and hope for the best.
• National debt? Just raise the ceiling and print more money.
The true irony is that the blue-collar workers they once looked down upon—the ones who fix the power grid, drive the trucks, and keep the economy running—will be the ones left to clean up the mess when this bureaucratic house of cards finally collapses.
The Solution? Less Bureaucracy, More Competence
If we want to salvage what’s left of this country, we need fewer paper-pushing policy makers and more people who actually know how to do things. A functioning society doesn’t need more political scientists—it needs engineers, doctors, electricians, entrepreneurs, and tradesmen. It needs people who build rather than regulate, who solve problems rather than write reports about them.
But as long as the political science degree pipeline keeps churning out smug, entitled bureaucrats, we’re stuck in a system where the least competent people have the most power—and the rest of us get to suffer the consequences
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