deliberate incompetance

I have a question.

Are many institutions in the US deliberately being mismanaged to look inept and inefficient to make the public turn against them or lead to their abolition?

BH said:

Are many institutions in the US deliberately being mismanaged to look inept and inefficient to make the public turn against them or lead to their abolition?

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Probably if run by republican or Rump appointees. SCOTUS for example.

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BH said:

I have a question.

Are many institutions in the US deliberately being mismanaged to look inept and inefficient to make the public turn against them or lead to their abolition?

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Yes. The Postal Service is a very obvious case in point, the current Postmaster Louis DeJoy has been less than subtle in his attempts to undermine the mail service.

No, but when there are end-a-rounds in the rules against nepotism, it can sure look like it. That and the general laziness of doing just enough to keep your job. Beyond that, as far as government institutions go, you'll usually find some percentage of the workforce that do good work and keep things running. But this is where the construct of everyone who wants a job should have a job and job protection falls apart. You'll usually find folks who want paychecks, not necessarily jobs. When minimum standards coming from the various levels of management end up being little more than a paperwork shuffle so each manager keeps themself from looking bad in the eyes of their boss, the institution can look inept to the point of wanton mismanagement.

BH said:

Are many institutions in the US deliberately being mismanaged to look inept and inefficient to make the public turn against them or lead to their abolition?

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As Politesse points out, the Post Office is a good example, with the General in charge literally having sabotage as his goal. The Dept. of Education under Trump may be another good example: Betsy de Vos hates public schools and directed her efforts, when she was Sec'y Education, at making them even worse.

But more typically, the GOPsters like to underfund departments and to burden them with time-consuming and expensive regulations. Then even when management is doing the best it can, they will present as an example of government incompetence.

With a few exceptions (NASA and Fred have excellent websites), U.S. government websites are atrocious: stupidly organized, full of useless verbiage or propaganda, and with the few useful pages randomly taken down. But that may be part of a more general trend, as commercial websites are increasingly unpleasant and hard-to-use.

I have had the same experience in Australia of finding government and business sites badly designed, with site navigation poor, sites uninformative, and if not simply searching for information but having to interact with them, presenting problems (the Australian government human services websites).

I remember Trump appointing climate change denier Scott Pruitt to head the EPA

BH said:

I have a question.

Are many institutions in the US deliberately being mismanaged to look inept and inefficient to make the public turn against them or lead to their abolition?

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What prompted you?

Politesse answered the question and subsequent response’s have enumerated some of the many ways RW/Trumpist effects precisely mirror the intents and actions of the 1932-33 Nazi party of Germany.
The entire goal of the Trump Party is to destroy democratic institutions, kill or jail the opposition and blame the resulting Reichstag Fires on democrats.

All that, just because one rapist fraudster needs to keep his own ass out of jail.
It’s a wonder of human stupidity.

bilby said:

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LOL. Be of good cheer. I don't work for the government.

barbos said:

BH said:

I have a question.

Are many institutions in the US deliberately being mismanaged to look inept and inefficient to make the public turn against them or lead to their abolition?

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What prompted you?

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As a former Soviet citizen you may be interested in this too. I've read a lot of people high up in the Soviet government and economic decision making made things deliberately worse to turn people against the Soviet economic model. Stuff would be taken out and destroyed just to create shortages, etc. and create dissatisfaction.

At a minimum, they are being deliberately underfunded (except DoD), which can significantly amplify the appearance of incompetence.

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BH said:

As a former Soviet citizen you may be interested in this too.

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I’m a little bit interested in whether or not babs is interested.

BH said:

people high up in the Soviet government and economic decision making made things deliberately worse to turn people against the Soviet economic model.

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Did they hope the Soviets would go full capitalism? Even with their economic inequality and deep, pervasive corruption?
I think we have seen how that works out - you get the worst of both worlds.