[kuschku]

> unresponsive the bureaucracy has become to political direction from the president & secretaries

You call it unresponsive, the founding fathers called it "checks and balances"

[krainboltgreene]

Look I get where you're coming from, but those "checks and balances" can't be the thing you defend because they've largely done neither and in fact allowed this insanity in the first place.

[ConspiracyFact]

A desire for an “independent bureaucracy” is quite the creative interpretation of the idea of checks and balances…