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There is a bit of unrealistic faith there... even if a president knows how to turn the knobs the bureaucracy has its own beliefs and positions, and can absolute
by syshum 5y ago
There is a bit of unrealistic faith there... even if a president knows how to turn the knobs the bureaucracy has its own beliefs and positions, and can absolutely slow things down to where it is impossible to make the change if the bureaucracy does not agree with the change
So sure it may not be outright insubordination, but the result is the same
They can also use other levers to ensure any they dislike fails, etc....
This is the deep state, where if the bureaucracy does not like a policy they can and do resist it.
- xxpor 5y agoSeems like that'd be a good incentive to not align your political axis around educated vs uneducated. As for simply installing uneducated people in the bureaucracy instead, that's how you end up with the Soviet Union.
- syshum 5y agoI am not sure where educated vs uneducated comes into play here. I know the media seems to play this up and it seems you buy into this narrative. Also I resist the idea that attaining a degree, any degree, qualifies as "educated" and anyone that has not attained a degree is "uneducated" that type of credentialism leads to all kinds of negative outcomes, and false assumptions. Which is the metric the media uses to label the electorate is "educated" or "uneducated". There are a huge number of people that have high levels of informal education, and there are people that have degree's that one can objectively argue are uneducated by any reasonable measure. So over all I reject completely on different levels the entire premise of your comment