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Originally Posted by fotze2
Does anyone here know someone who went "into politics" or got elected? All total losers. It's uncanny.
My aunt was a 'separate' school board trustee for a decade and she was widely known as the dumbest human on earth in our family.
I seriously think we need to jack up the pay or something even though that grosses me out.
And Byfield should be Bi-field.
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Yeah, I've thought about this a bunch. It's a huge problem and I don't see a solution.
It attracts people who love hearing themselves talk, enjoy being up on stage, enjoy power, like attention and are often overconfident in their intelligence/competence. None of these qualities benefit the governed.
Like Danielle Smith. You have a dope of the highest order who just likes listening to herself talk. She has the mannerisms, tone of voice and confidence to project an image of a competent politician, yet everything she says is super fuucking stupid. You can totally dupe morons into voting for you when you present yourself as she does.
The best leaders are obviously the reluctant leaders, but reluctant leaders generally don't run for office due to their reluctance.
The pool of potential political leaders from which to draw on is frighteningly small. There are probably oodles of people completely qualified to lead us in incredible ways, but you'll never hear their names and they'll never run for office because:
- they don't want to be in the public eye
- they don't like attention
- they don't want a 24/7 job
- they don't want to work with a bunch of idiots
- they don't want to govern a bunch of idiots
- they don't want to lead a bureaucracy where good ideas/strategies/etc. will get bogged down in red tape and partisan opposition
- lately there is so much vitriol directed towards politicians that many don't want to subject themselves nor their families to the frothing hatred
So you're left with a very shallow pool of political candidates. And non-partisan types - the ones who would be the best leaders - are non-existent because we're too tribal to let them get anywhere near power. Pool gets shallower.
Plus, I don't think good people can even get elected because the electorate would rather believe lies. Trump. Smith. The list is long. Dumb-dumbs allow themselves to be willfully duped, and then you have people like Hillary Clinton and Notley not getting elected because they're too focused on responsible governance versus jacking off the morons who would vote for them if you told them the right lies.
Look at First Lady on here. What was she running for? She was probably one of the dumbest people to every come on CP. It was shocking she was incapable of recognizing her own intellectual limitations. Plus she couldn't even manage her own life or finances...she came on here begging us for money to send her family to Australia. Like, wtf...you want to control the public purse? GTFO.