You’d be surprised how few representative democracies suffer from the same whiplash inducing pendulum effect the US suffers from. In most western nations the t

You’d be surprised how few representative democracies suffer from the same whiplash inducing pendulum effect the US suffers from. In most western nations the top civil servant and all those below them are non-partisan career civil servants that keep the ship running at all times and have better employment protections than the average employee (which already requires for cause in those countries). A new Minister’s (Secretary in US parlance) role is mainly that of someone who plots a course and the civil servants in the ministry try to follow it. As a side note, the concept or “government shutdown” is also entirely foreign in those countries, if not outright ridiculous.