For over twenty years Dominic Cummings has been a figure in UK politics but never as an elected official. Instead he's served as an advisor to those successful at the ballot box, including recent prime minister Boris Johnson. This is a common feature of "democratic" politics. No one expects a single elected representative to have a knowledge and command of everything around him or her.
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Dominic Cummings
No longer working in an official capacity for Johnson, Cummings is still available to express his opinions and lately he's given us an interesting one, as can be seen here. He explains in simple terms the existence of the infamous "Deep State", the gigantic bureaucracies that actually run nation-states. An excerpt:
"The fact that the quality of the people elected is so desperately bad
now across Western governments that brilliant 30-year-old women who no
one’s heard of or who no one’s elected are running things is actually
for the good. But the long-term consequences of this is also that these
institutions have been incredibly stale and self-reinforcing. Nothing
can change in any way — including the Deep State itself."
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