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Yeah, bureaucrat equals evil is an easy position to take:

No one likes following the rules until they are responsible for cleaning up after the people who didn’t follow the rules.



The American people are tired of cleaning up the messes the bureaucracy has made. They've broken the rules, and it is time for the mess to be cleaned up and ejected from their jobs.

Many who have more HN-like peers and communities may not realize this is the opinion of the people, but the awakening is coming when the paychecks stop.


Funny, you could just replace “American” with “German” and the comment would still work, even like 90 years or so ago!


Yes differing opinion on bureaucracy means you are a Nazi! No matter what I'm looking for is closer to the size of US government pre WW1, not a massive army of servants literally gassing minorities.


> The American people are tired of cleaning up the messes the bureaucracy has made.

Wait until you see the messes that are created when there are no rules because there is no bureaucracy.


Yeah, nothing says “order and rules” like revoking and then reinstating all federal grants over the course of what, a day or two? Less?

The order of things is that the GOP breaks everything, Democrats fix it all and get blamed for the painful process of fixing things and the sub optimality of the result, which the GOP has fought tooth and nail to remain sub-optimal because that helps their narrative and sub-optimal government enables them to win elections.

Then the GOP gets to run things again, breaks things senselessly, and we rinse and repeat.

Turns out electing people to government who think the government is the problem is a bad idea: they work to prove that their position is correct by actively breaking the government, thus can argue that they should remain in power because the government is “broken”.

“We are all trying to find the person who did this” meme. But with real human suffering.




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