Subject: Re: Paging Dope1, Mike, Righties
Yes, we need the insulation of civil service from politics. That's what makes one of the proposals from P2025 so incredibly dangerous. Remove that, and very suddenly you will not have a professional civil service. You will have a bunch of sycophants who don't know what they're doing, basing many decisions on ideology instead of professionalism (knowledge/experience).

We need a professional, insulated, civil service that does their jobs without regard to which way the political wind is blowing. That is NOT "swampiness". That's competent government, as much as we can have competence in government.**




**Like any organization, there are varying degrees of competence. I would guess it follows a normal distribution.