• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    “Everyone knows what the problem is: The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence,” said a senior GOP congressional staffer, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel issues. “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”

    Oh good golly gosh and gee whilikers, I wonder how that possibly could have happened?

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      It’s the same everywhere in the American political system just the GOP is the best example. Institutional Democrats spend insane amounts of time and money blocking competent intelligent people who would threaten the status quo with their policies.