Of course.
Will you keep it from your readership?
You know the answer.
Can you do so?
Always.
How about the government?
Of course.
How?
Most of the time, it is their secret. We control them, not the other way round.
Sounds like Yes, Minister.
Oh, it's actually much worse than that. We have the hyper democratic spoils system here, so it is career journalists' open season on all new fledgling administrations and legislatures here! There are hundreds of them! Like shooting young ignorant baby ducks in small barrels! Great decadent sport! Freshmen congressmen congresswomen, lemmings! Deer in the journalistic headlights! They foul out in great numbers daily! So, we really run the government indirectly. We don't do much at all substantively. We substitute for what, in the British system, see Yes, Minister, is a permanent civil service. The electorate does not know that. The politicians, of course, cannot admit it. They can stack the departments temporarily, but they are the victims of spoils countermands, often even by members of their own fricking party, every few electoral years. Most Americans might just as well be voting in Africa for all the good it does them; the poll counters are often the grateful dead!
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