Declining to solve a problem because the solution doesn't meet abstract criteria like "the right amount of efficiency?"

Sounds like virtue signaling to me

don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

"It's not that I don't want kids fed, I would just rather that kids go hungry than feeding them with the inefficient and corrupt system that I imagined."

> And what I like about leftists is their sympathy. What I dislike is their lack of real-world knowledge

The problem is that leftists have more real life knowledge then far right, maga and Trump.

It was not leftists who voted for administrations that blow up deficits the most while complaining about deficits. It was leftists who were 100% correct about what conservatives plan and do. And it is not the left who pointificates about health and education ... while actively making them worst and actively slashing ways to measure how they are performing.

> It’s not that I don’t want kids fed. It’s that I know deep in my soul that $100 will be spent per child, with $99 extracted along the way by various politicians / consultants / unions, and $1 of disgusting food will (sometimes) be provided to a child.

If you oppose any actual steps to feed kids, then you don't want the kids fed. The rest of this is just you justifying why you don't want the kids fed.

If you want the program to feed the kids to be efficient: guess what, the left wants that too, and we're really happy to work to make that happen.

But the fact is, the right is happy to simply throw out the program and let the kids starve rather than tolerate any inefficiency. And notably, that inefficiency is often created by right-wing policies which attempt to prevent anyone perceived as not deserving aid from receiving aid.

If you vote Republican because you want the government to be more efficient, you're piling on even more bullshit. The national debt consistently increases more under Republican presidents than Democratic ones[1]--the perceived austerity of conservative government is entirely nonexistent. This problem is only worse under Trump: DOGE has made things less efficient by firing and rehiring half of the workers in government without even a basic understanding of how the programs work and or could be improved[2].

> And what I like about leftists is their sympathy. What I dislike is their lack of real-world knowledge

I'm well aware these programs are inefficient, though they're certainly not 1% efficient as in your made up numbers. It's just that I'm not willing to stop helping people because it's inefficient. I'd like to make it more efficient, but it's pretty hard to make programs more efficient when people like you are constantly trying to get rid of them and defund them.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/democrats-vs-republicans-who-ha...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/21/doge-gove...