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It was Jimmy Carter and not Ronald Reagan who scrapped the civil service competency exams. Government getting worse has been a two-party affair for quite some t
by kbolino 2y ago
It was Jimmy Carter and not Ronald Reagan who scrapped the civil service competency exams. Government getting worse has been a two-party affair for quite some time. No one has any incentive to fix it, and the system is so vast, so complex, and so self-serving that no one even has the power to fix it (as things stand).
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoThe Democrats in America are highly conservative. Not as conservative as the Republicans, but still very conservative. We don't have a left and a right here, we have a hard right and a center right.
- kbolino 2y agoCertain "hard right" parties like the PAP in Singapore and the LDP in Japan have placed a competent civil service at the forefront of their policies. Though in many ways, the US may appear more conservative than its "peers", in other ways, it appears more liberal.