Doubling Down
Foreign policy has been an unmitigated failure. War with Iraq was supposed to stop terrorism but terrorist groups have multiplied. Foreign policy says this means we aren’t doing enough. But we did what they asked and there is reason to believe it was too much.
Schools and healthcare are failing. Again we are told we aren’t doing enough. We keep increasing funding and it get worse.
There is a self righteousness to this. It happens in science. Many theories are obviously wrong and become very elaborate because it is the only way to defend them. Invetment becomes the excuse to justify more investment. It is very wasteful.