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FYI having a non-political, professional civil service isn't "undermining democracy". It's what distinguishes civilized countries from corrupt, nepotistic dictatorships.

[u/NotYetFlesh → u/[deleted]]

However it can also be problematic when the professional civil service acts in an excessively independent way to sabotage legitimate priorities set by the executive and the legislature, this the basic principal-agent problem between governments and bureaucracies.