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If you don’t believe competence can exist in federal government administration, then you don’t believe in our representative democracy. If you don’t believe in
by pixelmonkey 7y ago
If you don’t believe competence can exist in federal government administration, then you don’t believe in our representative democracy. If you don’t believe in that, then spare us your participation, and don’t vote. But please don’t express your lack of belief in competence by intentionally voting an incompetent leader into our most important office.
This pandemic is a world-wide A/B test on the difference between competence and incompetence, and we here in NYC now have to suffer because of votes we did not cast. Indeed, in spite of millions of votes we cast, that simply did not count.
The callous, purposeless, senseless disease came to us first, the lack of coordinated federal response harms us the most, but the contagion marches exponentially along — indifferently laying waste to grand life projects, solid small businesses, and urban vibrancy — and soon, it will come for us all.
- seibelj 7y ago> If you don’t believe competence can exist in federal government administration, then you don’t believe in our representative democracy. I have a different idea of what the federal government should be doing than you. I want the government to be as limited as possible and focus on fundamental issues like national defense. The federal government continually fails - see Hurricane Katrina, Iraq / Afghanistan (Obama made the situation worse!), the Great Recession - these are caused because a centralized all-knowing all-powerful actor can’t fix every problem. It’s my philosophical belief. How will the pandemic be solved? The individual actions of millions people making their own localized choices. That’s how everything ultimately gets solved. You can dream of a perfect president who could wave his hands and make everything better. But it’s simply not possible.