Leftists are elected or hired based on their level of leftism, not for any experience, skills or merit.
What did Reagan say? It’s not that they don’t know anything. It’s just that they know so much that’s untrue.
Water is too precious for putting out fires.
The road is dangerous so you can’t travel it, even though it’s the only escape from worse danger.
They know rules but lack critical thinking skills to inform them when the time is right to break said rules.
Blind enforcement. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, all encouraged and exploited it.
We have it here now. We saw plenty of it during covid.
Yes, back in the day they said don't give a dying cancer patient in agony too much pain meds; they might get hooked. (Until opiods became a gold mine business.) Or don't give the dying any experimental new treatments; they might die of them. Trump tried to right that wrong with his "Right to Try" initiative.
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer“Two things are infinite: the univere and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” —Albert Einstein