Please indulge me. I often use examples from the politics of the San Francisco Bay Area.
More than 99% of my readers do not live here. However, urban government is the same all over America. It is just that my local government is the example of the worst one can expect. That is because this area is heavily dominated by unions, the Democratic Party, academia and wealthy trust fund zombies.
If you have spent time in the Third World, Yemen, India, Africa and much of Latin America you know what the term Third World means. It means nothing works the way you expect it to. Airplanes leave Lagos Nigeria when they are full and not before. Often the pilot needs to borrow a passenger’s credit card to pay for the fuel for the airplane.
In urban areas of the United States, with very rare exceptions, the public transportation is rather pathetic and not particularly reliable. My standard for buses is Tokyo, a very dense and complex city where bus schedules can be posted to the minute and are accurate. Do you know any American city where that could be true?
One of the reasons is evident in the union conditions for the operation of the Bay Area high-speed transport BART. Another is the San Francisco transit system both buses and underground light rail, MUNI.
In both instances the unions have written contracts that allow employees to not show up and not phone in to let management know that a position needs to be filled. In both systems, employees are allowed 40 days of absence without reason and without notification.
This is Third World living and working. A worker can stay in bed and go back to sleep most of the time just because they feel like it. Being at their job or being on time is irrelevant.
Now imagine you are management. You don't know until each shift begins, how many workers you have available on any day or any shift. Now try to manage a very complex highly technical and dangerous system under those conditions. You can't.
Unions have created Third World conditions that we live in because Lefties don't understand the environment around us and the institutions that make life good or bad.