I keep going back and forth on whether all the bad policy is purposeful destruction (Cloward-Piven) or gross incompetence.
I have personally witnessed the gross incompetence piece for 40 years at the Fed-Gov and they have it down to a science. I’m talking it’s an Olympic level performance that surpasses anything you can possibly imagine. So incompetence definitely plays a huge role in what we are seeing, however even if you were making your decisions with a coin toss you’d be correct at least once in a while.
Honestly I think it’s both. I believe it’s the intersection between the stupid and the malevolent.