This just shows the sheer 9-year old ignorance of Republicans who support this. Literal wars were fought until all sides agreed to let elections decide who had the right to rule. Civil Service was created to create a technocratic meritocracy and nonpartisan government system. They want to scrap both of these and go back to fighting?
Someone needs to tell Republicans than under the old system before the Civil Service, the president would mass-fire all government employees and replace them with political party members, regardless of competence. If they want to go back to that, would they be happy in 4 years with Democrats doing the same upheaval? Did Bush appointing only Republicans in charge of Iraq make it a better place?
This just shows the sheer 9-year old ignorance of Republicans who support this. Literal wars were fought until all sides agreed to let elections decide who had the right to rule. Civil Service was created to create a technocratic meritocracy and nonpartisan government system. They want to scrap both of these and go back to fighting?
Someone needs to tell Republicans than under the old system before the Civil Service, the president would mass-fire all government employees and replace them with political party members, regardless of competence. If they want to go back to that, would they be happy in 4 years with Democrats doing the same upheaval? Did Bush appointing only Republicans in charge of Iraq make it a better place?