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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Sure, it's a good characteristic for a leader, not doubling down on a poor decision. But It's be better to not make the poor decision in the first place. I would think a knowledgeable team around him would have been consulted so it would be interesting to know if he is surrounded by yes men, or if they warned him it was a bad idea and he did it anyway.
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Maybe my standards are too low but I think whenever a politician makes a decision against their ideology we should be recognizing it.
I think the ability to get new information, reassess your position, and change is actually more important than having the right position in the first place.
This is because all politicians will make bad policies, all ideologies have significant flaws, all policies have unintended consequences so there is no politician (or person) that will just not make poor decisions. So the most important skill becomes evaluating the affect of decisions, recognizing poor decisions, and changing course.
I agree it would be interesting to know how this decision was arrived at and if the goal was they knew their would be blow back and thought they could skate through or if they thought this was no big deal and didn’t consider consequences. Neither is a good look.