Why is it so rare to see politicians running on the promise of eliminating government inefficiency? Closest we’ve got was Trump promising to “drain the swamp” but I doubt anyone took it to mean “I’ll get the Department of State to issue passport in 72 hours instead of 6 weeks”. I’ve heard numerous complaints about the California DMV but haven’t heard of a major politician running on a promise to reduce the wait times there.
I do not perceive this as being particularly rare?
But the problem is systemic, the specific issues are individually generally low-salience or they would have long-since been fixed, and a lot of the things necessary for true change run up against entrenched concentrated interests like e.g. government employee unions, the contracting apparatus, etc.
Our polity does not consider “EINS will be issued within an hour because obviously we are a high-functioning society seriously what the actual #*(#(%#” to be a reason to vote for a candidate at the margin and so our political system does not prioritize making that happen by default.
Why is it so rare to see politicians running on the promise of eliminating government inefficiency? Closest we’ve got was Trump promising to “drain the swamp” but I doubt anyone took it to mean “I’ll get the Department of State to issue passport in 72 hours instead of 6 weeks”. I’ve heard numerous complaints about the California DMV but haven’t heard of a major politician running on a promise to reduce the wait times there.
I do not perceive this as being particularly rare?
But the problem is systemic, the specific issues are individually generally low-salience or they would have long-since been fixed, and a lot of the things necessary for true change run up against entrenched concentrated interests like e.g. government employee unions, the contracting apparatus, etc.
Our polity does not consider “EINS will be issued within an hour because obviously we are a high-functioning society seriously what the actual #*(#(%#” to be a reason to vote for a candidate at the margin and so our political system does not prioritize making that happen by default.