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Government doesn't have to be incompetent, ours has been made incompetent on purpose by parties interested in and ideologically in favor of dismantling it. They

Government doesn't have to be incompetent, ours has been made incompetent on purpose by parties interested in and ideologically in favor of dismantling it. They push the idea that everything the government does[0] is inefficient, corrupt, and does more harm than good, then they set about proving it when they are elected. [0] Except the authoritarian police they require to put down protests or protect their property, or the military they use to secure resources in other countries, both on the taxpayer dime of course.

throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>has been made incompetent on purpose by parties interested in and ideologically in favor of dismantling it So then why isn't government in states where these people are all but absent a pillar of competency that we can use as a blueprint? These are much larger cultural and societal problems. If you think letting "your team" run things unfettered would magically solve it you're wrong. There are competent government agencies. The situations in which they arise tend to look a lot like the situations in which other competent groups of people arise (smaller organizations, a well defined and narrowly scoped cause/mandate, people who actually believe in the mandate, etc).