[blagie]

From my vintage, among the most competent governing institutions are the Supreme Court and the Fed, neither of which has any oversight. I'm not claiming any sort of perfection, but compared to congress, it's like night-and-day.

It'd be interesting to understand how and why. That's not true of all institutions without oversight.

[cheeseomlit]

I'm of the exact opposite opinion, I see those two groups as some of the absolute most harmful in modern US politics. I'll take a gridlocked congress over an activist SCOTUS legislating from the bench or an out of control Fed printing trillions of dollars for their banker friends any day of the week, though I suppose the gridlocked congress is part of what enables that behavior