sclerotic

God knows, having worked a whole career in government, I understood their critique of its baroque and sclerotic routines.

"Repression of social problems by governments allow bureaucracies to rot and become sclerotic as the social pressure builds to the point where bureaucracies are exploded."

"Repression of social problems by governments allow bureaucracies to rot and become sclerotic as the social pressure builds to the point where bureaucracies are exploded."

It helped demolish billions in label revenue, forcing a sclerotic industry to re-assess its entire model.

By the final years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was a sclerotic power—”a gas station with nuclear weapons,” as the late Sen. John McCain once called it—offering the world nothing but a bankrupt ideology.