>This is the kind of government competence that only exists in the most wild conspiracy theories
And, possibly, before the 1960s.
And, possibly, before the 1960s.
Small departments in poor cities occasionally wind up highly competent because they wind up staffed with a high enough ratio of workers to get things done and everybody above them has bigger problems than micro managing so they have the freedom to get things done. And it runs for awhile then comes under scrutiny and gets made back into junk because politics.
I agree. And there's a massive depth unwinding to that.