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Your definition of competent and my definition of competent are vastly different. I legitimately think after the McCarthyist red scare purges, we lost all competent administrators of government (the Bureau of Labor Statistics was founded by a commie); every administration since FDR has been adamantly trying to shutter the government, one way or another.
I think Dick Cheney was competent in an extremely evil way.
I would agree with you in the sense the US hasn't had anyone who could improve the empire and make it more powerful, probably since the 70s,
But I'd say the post Reagan Liberals and neocons could at least steer the ship.
The current guys are removed from the guys who were removed from improving the empire,and they can't even steer the parts of ship anymore.