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>and the other party on average tends to produce corrupt & dysfunctional federal agencies the federal agencies are mostly employees have been there through man

>and the other party on average tends to produce corrupt & dysfunctional federal agencies the federal agencies are mostly employees have been there through many administrations. How do they suddenly become corrupt and dysfunctional besides these employees (90% of the current incumbent political party) suddenly becoming corrupt and dysfunctional?

goda90 3y ago
Employees still have to follow their politically appointed bosses at the top or risk being fired.
rocqua 3y ago
Employees will often internalize past actions they took, whether forced to by their bosses or not, as good actions. they will even build up a worldview to support those actions. For the alternative is to accept that you were bad, or even evil. That means leadership can change the course of an organization by ruthlessly making them do other things until people internalize those things as the right thing, or leave. That only explains decay though, not the magical idea that under the right party things spring back. The best to hope for is a democratic president to slow down the decay. But it is simply so much easier to tear things down than to build things up, that it will take a lot of democrats to see actual improvement.
frob 3y ago
This is mostly true and is part of what helped soften the absolute disaster that the Trump administration was. In multiple instances, Trump and his ilk wanted to do absolutely illegal and unconstitutional things but we're thwarted by career civil servants. However, they've learned. At the end of his term, Trump created a new classification of employment, Schedule F. Schedule F employees did not have civil-service protections and could be fired on a whim. Fortunately, he lost the election before he could use it. Biden removed it. Now, Trump-aligned groups like the Heritage Foundation are running programs to recruit Trump loyalists whose main and almost sole qualifications is loyalty to Trump (see Project 2025). They don't want a repition of last time where federal employees had the gall to actually follow the law instead of the dictator.

goda90 3y ago

Employees still have to follow their politically appointed bosses at the top or risk being fired.

rocqua 3y ago

Employees will often internalize past actions they took, whether forced to by their bosses or not, as good actions. they will even build up a worldview to support those actions. For the alternative is to accept that you were bad, or even evil. That means leadership can change the course of an organization by ruthlessly making them do other things until people internalize those things as the right thing, or leave. That only explains decay though, not the magical idea that under the right party things spring back. The best to hope for is a democratic president to slow down the decay. But it is simply so much easier to tear things down than to build things up, that it will take a lot of democrats to see actual improvement.

frob 3y ago

This is mostly true and is part of what helped soften the absolute disaster that the Trump administration was. In multiple instances, Trump and his ilk wanted to do absolutely illegal and unconstitutional things but we're thwarted by career civil servants. However, they've learned. At the end of his term, Trump created a new classification of employment, Schedule F. Schedule F employees did not have civil-service protections and could be fired on a whim. Fortunately, he lost the election before he could use it. Biden removed it. Now, Trump-aligned groups like the Heritage Foundation are running programs to recruit Trump loyalists whose main and almost sole qualifications is loyalty to Trump (see Project 2025). They don't want a repition of last time where federal employees had the gall to actually follow the law instead of the dictator.