Surging incidences of breakdowns indicate that intricate systems of America are gradually crumbling. The fundamental problem stems from evolving political attitudes, which encourage the elevation of inadequately skilled individuals and the marginalization of those with competence. This has progressively undermined societal aptitude to oversee modern systems.
During the 1960s, the routine preference for skillfulness found itself at odds with the political objectives of the civil rights movement. The norms that emerged from this conflict have persistently worn away at institutional proficiency, leading to increasingly frequent failures of America's complex systems.
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