I think the trick to debugging political problems is to remove the politics and focus on the technical problem. Meaning technical in a general sense, not necessarily high tech. Then it gets down to resources. And it helps to analyze real physical resources separately from financial resources. For example, do enough sandbags or staff or volunteers actually exist within a reasonable area? I think you have to look at these situations and question the nature of money and how we use it. And obviously the structures being more about people than problems and science and technology is an outdated paradigm.