Next time, for comparison, choose a country where half of the political spectrum does not deliberately gimp goverment's ability to do things just to prove government can't do things.
We're commenting on an article from a US news outlet about the situation in the US. I wasn't going to start talking about a random other unrelated country when people are proposing solutions for this one.
Also, I attempted to preempt these comments. They're not clever or new or even particularly accurate:
> And to preempt the comments saying it doesn't have to be this way: it doesn't matter if US government bureaucracies are incompetent by the design of politicians or by necessity, the point is that they are
