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We're generating too many elites, and there isn't room for all of them in the power structure. Which could explain why bureaucracies have grown so much, finding some place to put these warm bodies. Of course orgs can only support so much bloat, leading to infighting for status, further leading to social instability and culture wars.
Anyhow, interesting food for thought.
before the diversity hires, there were nepo hires. they didn't suddenly throw "merit" out the window to make way for diversity, it was already a lie to begin with
There still are nepo hires, you just added to the problem with diversity hires it didn't fix the nepo hire issue.
Deviations from an ideal (hire whoever will be most effective at doing whatever it is you're hiring them to do), whether intentional (nepotism, e.a., trading favors, etc) or accidental (for example trusting formal credentials a little to much), do not make that ideal a "lie".
The majority of people voting for such candidate now gives me hope that they’ll do it in the future if need ever arises. And of course it does — socialism will remain a popular and tempting ideology, since it has an illusion of “fairness” and “equality” about it.
He sold that bridge, or rather: wall, 8 years ago. Do you know what the definition of insanity is?
Even ignoring everything else: "making jobs" is a bipartisan good move. No one is ever going to carry on the promise of "I will make less jobs" and survive long in office. And the last thing you want when you're pretending the economy is good when it isn't is to further raise the unemployment rate.
This is a false promise.
Either way, I'd place a large wager that you're wrong and I'm right.
What do we have to show for all that deregulation? Bunch of environmental progress reverted, underfunding the organization for pandemic prep when a global pandemic hits, less bite behind anti trust investigations. Regardless of my stance on these, how do any of these bring down the price of groceries or not price out people on rent?