>Why can't the West innovate anymore?

>Too busy babysitting niggers
This

But another reason is the natural cycle of competent political and departmental leadership being swapped by less competent and more corrupt people while the competent ones move towards more shekels in the private sector.
As you have less and less competent people in departments and political leadership, you will see the departments etc grow in size to compensate for the individual non performance.
Larger departments means more bureaucracy and more taxes required for funding, the people paying for this are the talented ones who have to divert more and more resources to overcome bureaucracy and high taxes instead of innovating.
As the departments have gone more from just helping productive people (as in blocking predatory practices, settling legal disputes etc) to becoming self serving behemoths they also become increasingly corrupt.

What we see is just the continuation of more corrupt and retarded people ending up in positions of power funded by taxes making retarded decisions.

Sweden wastes about $14bn every year on immigrants (just in terms of net gibs, healthcare, crimefighting etc ignored).
The F22 program had a total cost of ~$75bn or 5.4 years of babysitting niggers and muslims (gibs only).

That is the consequence of politics infesting our departments and corrupt retards having too much control of our money. Niggers and muzzies are just a biproduct.
They are the nuclear waste och the Chernobyl accident that is our governmental institutions.