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These agencies haven’t been able to do their actual jobs in ages. Trump is doing what he said he was going to do (unpopular as that is) and we’ll have to figure out how to build back better (or whatever that term was).
I don’t agree with anything he’s doing but I do see opportunities in it. If we can survive without these departments until then.
It actually seems to be true more generally, good coping mechanisms are not particularly efficient in the absence of crisis. Another example: People who lived through a dictatorship, which destroyed social trust and capital, learned to cope by distrusting state authorities. That's a coping mechanism that doesn't work well in the absence of dictate, a system that is open to democratic self-governance. You need people who are willing to apply more bold strategies to effectively run a democratic state.
I do think a lot of DC fat is coping mechanisms. The bureaucracy is so slow to respond to change, change that this community loves, and needs a redo. Reorg. Whatever.
I get why my opinion is so downvoted but the reality is the reality.
Yes, poor management is a big problem that could be seen as an intentional structural issue, but this is a totally different ball game that's being played right now.
It’s not minimizing or trivializing the harms of today by pointing out their origins in the past; rather, it’s acknowledging this has been a long-term goal of those in power for decades, and it’ll take decades of continued, organized change to improve things.
There are no easy solutions or quick wins here. It’s a long game, always has been and always will be. More people need to understand that