since the late 70s most of these people have been hide-bound incompetent bureaucrats interested only in their personal advancement who can barely do the jobs assigned them in the best of times - add politics and it becomes a witch’s brew
there are simply too many people stirring the pot which is why 2/3rds of DC should be made to find employment elsewhere
The garden variety incompetent government official retired 2 or 3 decades ago.
Now they’re all SJW doomer globalists.