“I Was Once a Socialist. Then I Saw How It Worked.”
7th December 2019
David Brooks, NYT.
Or doesn’t, as the case may be. (Some might say that he still is, only not as much. But I won’t go there.)
My socialist sympathies didn’t survive long once I became a journalist. I quickly noticed that the government officials I was covering were not capable of planning the society they hoped to create. It wasn’t because they were bad or stupid. The world is just too complicated.
Actually, it because a lot of them are bad or stupid. Let’s face it, the cream of the crop don’t go into government service. Visit a local government office if you don’t believe me.
UPDATE: Join the Crooks and Liars, Get a Government Job!, by Audacious Epigone