>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

>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).