The Man Who Shot a President Over a Government Job: A Story Barely Told!

If you only learned about the federal government from media and speeches, you’d think federal employees are a mix of cartoon villains and paper-pushing robots. But they’re actually real humans. Surprise, right? I tried to stick to five myths about federal employees, but honestly there are way more than five. Here are a few big ones. Myth 1: Federal employees are politicians This is a classic confusion about the federal government. Roughly 99% of federal employees are not poli

This is one of the greatest points of confusion of the American Political system, especially for everyday people who don’t spend all their time thinking about or working for the Federal Government. Every election season, we hear some version of this: “The President is running the government.” OR “Congress is running the government.” OR “The bureaucracy is running the government.” OR “The deep state is running the government.” If you’re confused, that’s normal. You can think a