Another thought about SF corruption--I've been thinking this week that the corruption that exists in SF is the consequence and not the cause of a generally dysfunctional government. [thread]
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None of this is the workers' fault. For the most part, most of the people who work in City government are mission-driven people who want to do right by the people they serve, and they too get beaten down by the apparatus and general like of political will.
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The line between actually-illegal corruption and this kind of access politics and cronyism is so thin as to be meaningless. But to me, practically the only time government works smoothly is when those things are happening, for those people participating in it.
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This is why I'm skeptical about any crusade to "root out corruption" that isn't coupled with a bigger crusade to get government to work.
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Like what if public agencies had the staff and the mandate and the resources to do their jobs and provide good services to everyone, and nobody needed to call in favors because stuff was handled the way it's supposed to be?
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This sorry state of affairs is a consequence of austerity & deregulation and neoliberals & endless attacks on the public sector. It’s why the solution is more political power for working class people and not more white people with graduate degrees who think they have the answers.
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This is gross, & one of the big things that has kept me from being involved in local politics despite over a decade of professional political organizing before I moved here.
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