rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Southern Baptist Loyalties and WELS Follies":
After working most of my adult life for General Motors, the similarities between it and the Olde Synodical Conference are scary. I often wondered how long GM could carry so much dead weight from the middle to the top of its management. I lived long enough to get an answer. I was also puzzled as to why anyone would want to move from the shop floor into supervision. At the bottom of management, independent thinking was always squelched. The Olde Synodical Conference was once the largest Lutheran body in this country. GM was once the largest auto maker. Both have collapsed from their own weight.
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GJ - We have a cousin who retired very young from GM in Canada. It was said that the LCA was formed in the 1960s with GM as its model. Every few years a lot more committees, commissions, and staffers were eliminated. That goes on with the ELCA, which merged having a women's commission and national women's group, both committed to the same feminist ideals.
The structure was great for achieving radical goals, leveraged by quotas.
