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While the Democratic party may have lost the Civil War, it has won the battle to control the United States Civil Service [[bureaucracy]].<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state Trump vs the Deep State], Evan Osnos, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', May 14, 2018</ref> Since the end of Reconstruction in 1876 and passage of the 1882 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, the Democratic party is no longer dependent on the spoils system and winning elections to maintain its power.  

While the Democratic party may have lost the Civil War, it has won the battle to control the United States Civil Service [[bureaucracy]].<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state Trump vs the Deep State], Evan Osnos, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', May 14, 2018</ref> Since the end of Reconstruction in 1876 and passage of the 1882 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, the Democratic party is no longer dependent on the spoils system and winning elections to maintain its power.  

This control of unelected government positions is the source of the Democratic party's power. An unelected army of Democrat civil servants doing behind the scenes favors and handing out government goodies is the key to success for elected Democrats. [[Labor unions|Unionization]] has cemented the bond between party and civil service.<ref>Taxpaying citizens, which includes private sector unionized workers, are the "unfair" employers. "Labor unity" between government workers and their private sector unionized bosses has been one of the most baffling and deceptive [[oxymoronic]] concepts pushed by the unholy alliance of the Democratic party and labor unions.</ref> This is why Democrats spare no expense in the budget, none of them pay for anything and there are always votes to be bought. Their sweeping power is so encompassing they unabashedly call themselves, "the party of government."<ref>See for example [https://prospect.org/article/crisis-working-majority ''From Crisis to Working Majority''] by STANLEY GREENBERG, ''The American Prospect'' FALL 1991.</ref>

This control of unelected government positions is the source of the Democratic party's power. An unelected army of Democrat civil servants doing behind the scenes favors and handing out government goodies is the key to success for elected Democrats. [[Labor unions|Unionization]] has cemented the bond between party and civil service.<ref>Taxpaying citizens, which includes private sector unionized workers, are the "unfair" employers. "Labor unity" between government workers and their private sector unionized bosses has been one of the most baffling and deceptive [[oxymoron]]ic concepts pushed by the unholy alliance of the Democratic party and labor unions.</ref> This is why Democrats spare no expense in the budget, none of them pay for anything and there are always votes to be bought. Their sweeping power is so encompassing they unabashedly call themselves, "the party of government."<ref>See for example [https://prospect.org/article/crisis-working-majority ''From Crisis to Working Majority''] by STANLEY GREENBERG, ''The American Prospect'' FALL 1991.</ref>

===Spoils system===

===Spoils system===