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Oligarchy, kakistocracy, autocracy, kleptocracy, fascism, totalitarianism...It's actually kind of impressive how they've found a way to be (or it appears soon will be) all of the worst systems of government all at once.
Fascism usually mostly encompasses all the others.
Fascism always abuses all the others for personal gain.
Same as most autocracies. The system of incentives lines up such that the innermost circle gets absurdly over-rewarded in order to not turn on the leader. In other words, it's corruption by design in almost all autocratic systems, and even when the autocrat manages to avoid that, regression towards the mean means it ends up that way within a couple generations at best.
Yup. Oligarchy being the most prominent flavor in the modern world iirc
In Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, a character in the 1930s says "the dictatorship of the proletariat begins to seem to me, a German burgher, an ideal situation compared with the now possible one of the dictatorship of the scum of the earth."
If you are someone in the firing line for this kind of thing, and still voted for the felon, I just have no words.
Okay done....so what's next? Established a Punch the children foundation? Like the title says, they would fund a national arm of the government solely dedicated to punching our kids in the face on an everyday basis while we're all stuck at work.
He means well right? He would never do such a thing!
Yes, he wants punch out kids in the face, but I can clearly and easily understand the words he is speaking. /s
I mean, if I'm being honest and having worked with and for career civil servants, there is a dire need to cut red tape and get people fired and make it easier to hire again within government agencies. Some of the dumbest, most out of touch tech illiterates run local government here.
Just... probably don't trust the way Trump would handle it. Replacing bad with corrupt is not what I have in mind.
So I'm not sure where you're from, but the feds don't run local governments in the US, with some exceptions in DC.
It's more a general statement of local, state and federal. Government workers never seem to get fired. Then again, that might not be true in some states and counties, so who knows.
Yeah, that's the whole reason not to ever vote Republican.
On the other hand, stability is the main draw of any government job. Without the guarantee of continued employment, most people wouldn't want to put up with the lower pay and extremely slow career advancement prospects of government work.
So who will they hire? People who can't get any other job, e.g. even more incompetent people.
Probably because government pays the worst of any field, and gets worse the more local you get. Unless you're an elected official where you can abuse the position for financial gain as much as you please.