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Originally Posted by Russic
It actually raises a reasonable question of what type of experience works best in politics. Career politician? Finance background? Lawyer? Everyday Normal Guy? Is there even a trend or does it generally come down to character?
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Personally I think everybody just brings something different of value, obviously understanding how governments and economies work is a huge advantage, but if the person is smart enough even if they don't have that skillset I still believe they can do a good job by bringing in experts and leaning on/learning from them.
The only people I think make truly horrible leaders are the ones who are so arrogant as to think they already have all the answers to everything and are trying to make decisions on macroeconomic policy based on random bits of nonsense they and their buddies chatted about, some kind of ideology disconnected to fact or their gut.
Basically if I see someone who starts ranting about road design or civic planning, how the people doing that work all their lives are idiots and you can tell they don't have a clue what they are talking about, that's the guy that should never be a leader.
And it feels like in this day and age, 9/10 that is the guy who runs