(03-18-2018, 06:29 AM)Pyeknu Wrote: The Peter Principle, in other words.
To some extent, but the Peter Principle is usually about people who show talent in certain areas being promoted into a field no one realizes they're ill suited for, or at worst, moving an idiot you can't get rid off into a position where they can't do much damage. In this case it's being done deliberately, with the intent of destroying the system for their own ends. You have a coal mining minion in charge of the EPA, you have the patron demon of student loans in charge of education, your President is threatening government employees on twitter and trying to influence witnesses, the list goes on. This isn't just incompetence. It's malice, greed and a desire for destruction I don't think your government has ever experienced, and given how your politicians have spent the past few decades dropping to their knees before the altar of 'Campaign Contributions', aka open bribery, I am legitimately terrified you're not going to pull out of your death spiral.
And when you go down, you're going to flail about and possibly take the rest of us with you.