Yep. It's hard to avoid rent-seeking off of reputation.

Undisciplined

it's DEI, then ideology then credentials

it's also perception of ideology, saying the right buzzwords such as commitment to diversity statements 

in the case of air traffic control under Obama and Biden, it's only color, who cares how many people die, most passengers are white anyway

never heard on Spirit Airlines: is there a doctor on board?


Bell_curve

BooksAndArticles

America's Problem Is Fragility (The American Mind, Josh Hendrickson)

denlillaapan

To follow up on this, I also don't think the "regime" selects on ideology; but neither does it select on competence.

I think it's more that perceptions of competence have become entirely self referential.  You are competent because the degree says you are competent, and the person conferring that degree is competent to confer it because their degree says so.

Replace degree with position/job title, and so on, ad infinitum, and you get to where we are. And this can persist for a long time becuase there are no market forces to put it in check.