While I assume not your intention, your text, as written, conflates "politicians" with "public servants / government employees." While not the only factor involved, having to run for political office versus being appointed to, or just plain hired for a role, in a government agency is a major factor behind the need to "grandstand" as some politicians on both sides of the aisle feel the need to do. Chuck Shumer would fit into my category of "politician". But I will place on the table the example of Andy Kim, the US Representative from NJ, who nearly famously was photographed cleaning the floor of the Capitol rotunda late on the night of January 6th. My point isn't to put that date into this discussion but to suggest there are elected officials who truly want to do the work of governing.
My experience with government service has been at only the state and local level. I have worked with many state and local government employees. None of these people I have worked with ran for their offices. They had a role to play and played it to the best of their abilities. We need to understand the nuances in this discussion and then be able to dissect things a bit further, as I have tried to do in a few hundred words, to separate "political grandstanders" from the elected federal, state and local politicians who just want to drive positive change and still further from the government agency employees fulfilling their defined roles.
While I assume not your intention, your text, as written, conflates "politicians" with "public servants / government employees." While not the only factor involved, having to run for political office versus being appointed to, or just plain hired for a role, in a government agency is a major factor behind the need to "grandstand" as some politicians on both sides of the aisle feel the need to do. Chuck Shumer would fit into my category of "politician". But I will place on the table the example of Andy Kim, the US Representative from NJ, who nearly famously was photographed cleaning the floor of the Capitol rotunda late on the night of January 6th. My point isn't to put that date into this discussion but to suggest there are elected officials who truly want to do the work of governing.
My experience with government service has been at only the state and local level. I have worked with many state and local government employees. None of these people I have worked with ran for their offices. They had a role to play and played it to the best of their abilities. We need to understand the nuances in this discussion and then be able to dissect things a bit further, as I have tried to do in a few hundred words, to separate "political grandstanders" from the elected federal, state and local politicians who just want to drive positive change and still further from the government agency employees fulfilling their defined roles.
Would you oppose a regulation that gives the administrative state too much power but nonetheless advances a policy you like?
Yes.