Quote (EndlessSky @ Jul 18 2016 05:05pm)
The man who won D-Day said plans are useless. Take a walk off a cliff.
The world would be exactly the same without you.
So, as expected, you were just totally bullshitting the whole time and didn't have the slightest idea what you were talking about. I mean that kind of thing might fly when you're talking to some of the other people here who also don't have a clue what they're talking about but it's the height of stupidity to try it with me.
And no, obviously the country would be in a pretty bad spot if most of the people who actually have the institutional knowledge required to make the federal government operate just decided to pick up and leave, or were forced out (in Trump's case). You don't understand the threat that that poses because sadly you don't understand how government actually works. We go to great lengths to try to prevent those types of "brain drains" and whatever could cause them, because we
know what it would to throw the work onto less-capable, fewer people. It isn't theoretical, we just watched the abject failure that was the Bush administration struggle with this.
To give you an example: I saw you dummies upthread talking about abolishing the IRS. That is a singularly terrible idea, and only clueless, uninformed people think that's a good idea, but when you move the IRS' operation to fewer people, who are less qualified, you only get a worse product. This is of course precisely why the Republicans deliberately keep doing that even though we don't have a reason to: they want people to hate the IRS because that outcome suits their ideological interest, even though the product, inferior tax preparation, doesn't fit our needs as a country.