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Greg's avatar

I agree that Trump's Schedule F is generally not a good thing, but I find the arguments that our current system has an accountability advantage unpersuasive. Like most Americans, I want a non-partisan, *but accountable*, civil service. "Non-partisan" should not be defined as "unaccountable." But that is exactly what it has become. You make a passing reference to fraud and wasteful spending as valid concerns—and they are—but the real problem is the complete absence of accountability, and the facelessness behind which it hides. You gloss over this significant flaw in our current bureaucracy. Forget about Trump for a moment and speak to the inherently anti-democratic nature of our current leviathan of an administrative state. What would be more productive in our current polarized state would be not just to insulate this bureaucracy from a Trump assault, but to acknowledge its serious flaws and restore it to something that is actually accountable to the people.

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schneile's avatar

This is rather hilarious considering most federal civil servants are CURRENTLY “loyal foot soldiers”—to the swampy left.

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