"Just apply some common sense." The most powerful and yet most dangerous concept at the heart of democratic political culture. Somebody ought to write a book about the use of this claim in democratic political culture!
“The problem is that, first, they have only a very superficial understanding of government operations, with no sense of the reasons why things are done in certain ways, or the constraints imposed by legislation, treaties, and long tradition.”
That is the problem all right. Good thing we have a professional class of bureaucrats to manage it all. Ironic.
Super. Plus, musk’s marauders, tech wizard, though they may be, lack knowledge, not only of government, but also of accountancy and bookkeeping. One would hope that if we survive this episode, it would help put paid to the ridiculous notion that we should “run government like a business.” But I doubt that it will.
"Just apply some common sense." The most powerful and yet most dangerous concept at the heart of democratic political culture. Somebody ought to write a book about the use of this claim in democratic political culture!
“The problem is that, first, they have only a very superficial understanding of government operations, with no sense of the reasons why things are done in certain ways, or the constraints imposed by legislation, treaties, and long tradition.”
That is the problem all right. Good thing we have a professional class of bureaucrats to manage it all. Ironic.
Super. Plus, musk’s marauders, tech wizard, though they may be, lack knowledge, not only of government, but also of accountancy and bookkeeping. One would hope that if we survive this episode, it would help put paid to the ridiculous notion that we should “run government like a business.” But I doubt that it will.