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Originally Posted by Nobama
I like the idea of a self funded non political candidate. In my opinion a career politician has very little real world skills.
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But if being a career politician doesn't provide you with any 'real world' skills, is being a president a 'real world' job? At a minimum, you need to have a sophisticated understanding of law, of the way government works, of international relations, of economics. You don't get those skills from many 'real world' jobs. Honestly, being a state governor is probably the most applicable experience you can get.
I think elections have strangely (and entirely accidentally) changed over the years to become a pretty good litmus test for showing us the sort of leader someone is going to be. An incompetent campaign is likely to reflect that the person would be incompetent as a leader. A campaign needs to manage very large budgets that follow very complex rules, they need to coordinate extensive and geographically distributed work-forces, they need to have a high degree of accountability, they need to be very data-driven, they need effective risk/reward management, they need to be based on connection not only with citizens but also with other officials. From the deceit of Cruz, the secrecy of Clinton, the disconnect of Rubio, the divisiveness of Trump, you can look at how these people conduct their campaigns and get a reasonable sense of what their white house would be like.