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I'd contend that the problem is the "secret" part, rather than the "double government" part. Maybe that's the problem with western governments? They have erro
by femto 12y ago
I'd contend that the problem is the "secret" part, rather than the "double government" part.
Maybe that's the problem with western governments? They have erroneously interpreted their job to be "running the country", and the typical elected official is not qualified to do this? Perhaps they should cede the running of the country to the public service and recognise that their true role as an elected official is to keep the public service transparent, accountable and honest?
The problem with the above is that once a government sacrifices transparency, as most seem to have done, they have no useful purpose and have to resort to (incompetently) trying to run things to justify their existence.
- tankenmate 12y agoIn my perspective it is often expediency; it takes a large and sustained effort to redirect a civil service as large as the US, kind of like trying to steer a 400m long container vessel. Here's a look at one of the most extreme bureaucracies the world ever produced, it is the result of expediency and unchecked power combined with ideology over evidence; http://www.galorebot.com/bureaucracy/essay.htm http://www.galorebot.com/bureaucracy/essay.htm Keeping such large organisations in check requires the fortitude to keep hitting your head against a brick wall while also remaining sharp minded and sane; all the while making progress.
- innguest 12y ago> it takes a large and sustained effort to redirect a civil service as large as the US, kind of like trying to steer a 400m long container vessel. That's why Thomas Jefferson and others straight out of Enlightenment wanted for the Federal government top be very limited and for the law-making power to be left to the states. Each US state is much smaller than the US.