Comments on: A Meritocratic Apocalypse

By: Borepatch

Borepatch — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:48:35 +0000

Bomag nails it. In theory, a technocratic meritocracy is a great way to govern a country. But the last 30 years has shown that what we have is neither technocratic nor meritocratic. The evidence for this is falling from the trees, but you can start with the Solyndra mess. Or the VA. Or the IRS.

You can make a decent argument that Obama’s biggest success in governance is in Space Policy, where he has taken the Federal Bureaucracy out of the main action and let the private sector run without interference.

By: Mike in Boston

Mike in Boston — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 02:37:33 +0000

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” I suspect Trump’s teams will be a lot less hung up on left-wing goodthink that just ain’t so.

By: Bomag

Bomag — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:58:59 +0000

Where is all this meritocracy Dan Drezner is talking about? It sure isn’t in the bureaus I interact with. Everything around here is cronyism and minority cred.

By: FNN

FNN — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:16:58 +0000

Senator Jeff Sessions is liked by his peers and has been a U.S. attorney and state attorney general, but he never has had as much authority as he will have next year.

Isn’t that true of just about any incoming US Attorney General?

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:14:03 +0000

Trump is so bad, he gave some people Winning AIDS already! That's Gavin McInnes, ty the way, who ran Vice magazine before Shane Smith. Watch Gavin on the Joe Rogan Experience. I "discovered" him when LaFond linked to his How To Move To Canada video.