Well put and absolutely in line with my own reactions.

...the vindictive sociopathy that is a defining feature of so many (democrat-controlled) govt agencies today. None of this is an accident. The mentality of the Democrat-bureaucrat is much more similar to the statist-sadists described in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago” than we want to believe. But just like then, they demand you submit to the whim of the machine, even when vicious, random, and unfair. Thats because the underlying premise of the machine is that it cannot be wrong, by definition, and your “rights” are just in the way. Solzhenitsyn described the frustration that Soviet officials would feel with the outrage of those innocents arrested- it didnt matter that the victim of the state had done nothing wrong, the machine was a system and anything slowing it down was friction, to be treated as waste. So it is with many of the statist-bureaucrats today.