Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
I understand what you are getting at - but disagree. What you are thinking about is bureaucracy rather than the left.
A fair distinction.

However, the political left's preference has been for a comparatively powerful government to engender social change towards a more idealized end-state of culture/economics etc. Regrettably, nobody has come up with a way to truly smooth out the major kinks inherent in the bureacratic approach and government is virtually guaranteed to end up as a bureaucracy wherever it is not conducted by fiat or by graft.

This limitation undercuts many of the political left's best efforts.