The Blind Leading The Blind: A Story About The US Federal Government Employing People Who Can't Write Or Read Basic English
A Mystery Thriller Inspired by Scripture
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Prologue
"If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit." – Matthew 15:14
The United States government was supposed to be the backbone of the nation—the guiding force behind its laws, security, and order. It ran the courts, protected the borders, issued the currency, and held the trust of the people.
But beneath the marble halls and the polished speeches, something was deeply, irreversibly broken.
It started small. A clerical error here, a missing document there. A passport issued to the wrong person, a criminal released by mistake. But soon, the signs were everywhere—decisions made without logic, policies written in near gibberish, entire agencies grinding to a halt under the weight of incompetence.
And then came the whisper: What if the government was hiring people who couldn’t even read the laws they were supposed to enforce?
One man was about to find out.
And the truth would shake the nation.
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Chapter 1: The First Mistake
"You shall not pervert the justice due to the poor in his lawsuit." – Exodus 23:6
Ethan Graves had spent twenty years as an investigative journalist. He had seen corruption in corporations, cover-ups in the police force, and even scandals in the church. But he had never seen anything like this.
It started with a routine records request from the Department of Social Services. Ethan was investigating fraud in public assistance programs, suspecting that millions of taxpayer dollars were being funneled to ghost applicants—people who didn’t exist.
But when the documents arrived, he was stunned.
The reports were barely comprehensible, filled with misspellings, fragmented sentences, and entire paragraphs that made no sense. These weren’t just typos—this was the writing of someone who could barely read or write.
At first, he thought it was a mistake. Maybe an intern had prepared the files.
But then, another lead came in. A whistleblower inside the Department of Motor Vehicles claimed that licensing exams were being administered by employees who couldn’t read the questions themselves.
Ethan’s pulse quickened.
Was the government employing people who were functionally illiterate? And if so—why?
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Chapter 2: The Vanishing Standards
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." – Hosea 4:6
Ethan’s investigation took him deep into federal employment records. He filed a Freedom of Information request, demanding hiring qualifications for government jobs across multiple agencies.
The response came back faster than expected.
And it was damning.
The hiring process had changed over the years—quietly, strategically. Literacy tests were phased out. Education requirements were loosened. For certain positions, there was no longer any assessment of reading comprehension at all.
The reason? Equity hiring.
Federal agencies had been under pressure to meet diversity quotas, leading to mass hiring of individuals who lacked the basic skills necessary to perform their jobs. The government wasn’t just failing—it was actively lowering the bar.
But why?
Who benefited from a government that couldn’t function?
Ethan needed answers. And he knew exactly where to go.
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Chapter 3: The Silent Sabotage
"For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them." – Deuteronomy 32:28
The whistleblower met Ethan in a dimly lit parking garage, her face shadowed beneath the brim of a hood.
“I can’t talk for long,” she said, handing him a flash drive. “Everything you need is here—hiring policies, internal memos, whistleblower complaints. They knew this was happening.”
Ethan plugged the drive into his laptop that night, his hands shaking.
The documents were worse than he imagined.
Over 60% of new hires at certain federal agencies had failed basic literacy assessments—but were hired anyway.
Entire departments were staffed by individuals who couldn’t draft coherent reports.
Secret memorandums warned supervisors not to question employees’ literacy levels, or they could face termination for ‘discrimination.’
The most damning revelation?
It wasn’t an accident.
The government wasn’t just tolerating incompetence. It was engineering it.
Someone wanted the system to fail.
But who? And why?
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Chapter 4: The Puppet Masters
"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him." – John 8:44
Ethan’s investigation led him to the highest levels of government—advisors, bureaucrats, policy makers.
What he uncovered sent a chill down his spine.
A secretive network of global interests had infiltrated the U.S. government—not to seize control, but to render it useless.
A nation that cannot govern itself is a nation that can be controlled.
By flooding government agencies with workers who could barely read and write, the system was collapsing under its own weight. Vital services were failing. Laws were being ignored. The American people were losing faith in their institutions.
And in the shadows, those who pulled the strings were preparing to offer a solution.
A new system. A global system. One where the United States, once the leader of the free world, would become nothing more than a pawn.
Ethan had seen enough.
It was time to expose the truth.
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Chapter 5: The Reckoning
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." – John 8:32
Ethan released his findings in a scathing exposé. He named names. He published documents. He showed the American people just how deeply their government had been sabotaged.
The backlash was immediate. Protests erupted. Congressional hearings were called. A furious nation demanded to know how its own leaders had allowed this to happen.
But the machine fought back.
Ethan was threatened. His bank accounts were frozen. News outlets refused to cover his story, labeling it “misinformation.”
Yet, the people had seen the evidence.
The tide was turning.
And somewhere, in the halls of power, the puppet masters began to realize:
They had underestimated the will of a nation that could still think for itself.
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Epilogue: The Awakening
"For I am the Lord your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, ‘Do not fear; I will help you.’" – Isaiah 41:13
The battle wasn’t over.
The system was still broken. The corruption still ran deep. But for the first time in decades, people were watching.
They demanded accountability. They demanded competence. They demanded the return of a government that worked for them—not against them.
And as Ethan stood at the steps of the Capitol,
watching the people rise, he knew:
This wasn’t just a political war.
It was a war for the soul of a nation.
And it had only just begun.
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To Be Continued…
