A '''swamp rat''', sometimes refereed to as '''swamp creature''', are longtime [[civil service system]] employees of the [[federal]] [[government]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], and the elected [[legislator]]s who excuse and protect their conduct. Also included in this group are anti-reform [[lobbyist]]s, [[attorney]]s, and [[mainstream media]] figures.
Swamp rats are the overseers of the [[administrative state]].
Many if not most are adherents to [[Marxist-Leninist]] [[political]] theory of governance by undemocratic and anti-democratic [[technocratic]] [[elitist]]s.
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