I think there are few Democratic leaders who have lived in a business bureaucracy sometime over the last 30 years and experienced the upheaval as they modernized and shed workers to save money. It is cyclic and painful and part of a life of a healthy bureaucracy. The federal bureaucracy really increased in the late 50s to early 80s and h…
I think there are few Democratic leaders who have lived in a business bureaucracy sometime over the last 30 years and experienced the upheaval as they modernized and shed workers to save money. It is cyclic and painful and part of a life of a healthy bureaucracy. The federal bureaucracy really increased in the late 50s to early 80s and has never gone through this cycle and has become bloated and inefficient When an organization gets this way all of a sudden stuff gets done that really should not happen. Middle class people and even many professionals know this and even if they dislike Trumps tactics they know it must happen and for some reason Democrats don’t get this. I look to the large cities they run and I have to assume that either a) they are incompetent administrators or b) there is some political benefit they achieve from letting this ever growing, inefficient and hard to control bureaucracy stay in place. If so they are in trouble
Living in one of those cities, I find the mentality of government here to be purely extractive, for multiple political reasons. These include 1) exploitation of poor people by machine politicians through appeal to racial and class resentments, 2) hostility to capitalist society of well off leftist professionals who have plenty of money and don’t mind spending some of it on wasteful social programs in order to demonstrate their virtue to themselves, and 3) one-party rule ensuring there is no countervailing power to end misrule, and that state and national offices are filled by appointment, not election. It’s been 12 years since we paid any attention to the productive part of the city economy, the part that brings the money in.
I think there are few Democratic leaders who have lived in a business bureaucracy sometime over the last 30 years and experienced the upheaval as they modernized and shed workers to save money. It is cyclic and painful and part of a life of a healthy bureaucracy. The federal bureaucracy really increased in the late 50s to early 80s and has never gone through this cycle and has become bloated and inefficient When an organization gets this way all of a sudden stuff gets done that really should not happen. Middle class people and even many professionals know this and even if they dislike Trumps tactics they know it must happen and for some reason Democrats don’t get this. I look to the large cities they run and I have to assume that either a) they are incompetent administrators or b) there is some political benefit they achieve from letting this ever growing, inefficient and hard to control bureaucracy stay in place. If so they are in trouble
Living in one of those cities, I find the mentality of government here to be purely extractive, for multiple political reasons. These include 1) exploitation of poor people by machine politicians through appeal to racial and class resentments, 2) hostility to capitalist society of well off leftist professionals who have plenty of money and don’t mind spending some of it on wasteful social programs in order to demonstrate their virtue to themselves, and 3) one-party rule ensuring there is no countervailing power to end misrule, and that state and national offices are filled by appointment, not election. It’s been 12 years since we paid any attention to the productive part of the city economy, the part that brings the money in.