. . . so appointees should be screened to ensure that their views are “wholly in sync” with the president’s.
This is what ultimately kills fascism when everything else fails. People in high positions are chosen for loyalty first and competence a distant second. Combine that with eating each other in purity contests, and you have a political philosophy that’s doomed from the start.
Only question is how much damage it does to everything else before it completes the cycle.
– but doing it in the first place is a symptom of fascism and other repressive systems. It’s the sort of crap that ruins anything where data is important… tho musicians screening who’s gonna join their band might be alright.
Yep, at the end of the day government is a combination of the exciting and political with the boring, necessary, and apolitical. The former gets you in, but you better not fuck up the latter or you’re lucky if you just lose power.
This is what ultimately kills fascism when everything else fails. People in high positions are chosen for loyalty first and competence a distant second. Combine that with eating each other in purity contests, and you have a political philosophy that’s doomed from the start.
Only question is how much damage it does to everything else before it completes the cycle.
– but doing it in the first place is a symptom of fascism and other repressive systems. It’s the sort of crap that ruins anything where data is important… tho musicians screening who’s gonna join their band might be alright.
Yep, at the end of the day government is a combination of the exciting and political with the boring, necessary, and apolitical. The former gets you in, but you better not fuck up the latter or you’re lucky if you just lose power.