Great points and I agree to an extent. I don't agree that Romney would have gone the other way on all of those things regardless of what he said in his campaign. He is after all the guy that created the original Obamacare in my state. TBH I never would have expected my state to elect him and I was pissed when it happened but we came out alright.
The President has to put country first and foremost. This is going to be cold-hearted but people are secondary to the interests of the country. If people were first in line, we wouldn't have to fight for change. You say people (end goal) are who the machine is built for in regards to the Presidency. Well in business the end goal is money. A top leader will produce lots of money thus hitting his goal. Businessmen have a great ability to adapt to any situation (seizing opportunities, see my above post to rapbeats) and if the end goal is helping the people then they would be apt to make that alignment to succeed in their goals. Look at Congress. They are mostly successful businessmen or lawyers. Both are high stress professions that are in the upper echelon and require skills that the majority of people just don't have. They can work in unruly circumstances and make tough decisions that most of us couldn't.
Like I said, I view this as a prerequisite rather than the only qualifications. I just view businessmen as more highly qualified than almost all others in being capable of doing the job. You're right in that if requires more than just business skills but my argument is that all of that "other stuff" that you're talking about are already ingrained in a successful businessman, hence why he's on the top of the ladder.
Yeah I thinnk we agree on about half of the issue. A business man has the potential to make a good politician because they are accustomed to management, high levels of stress, success, playing the game.
Outside of that businessmen tend to be snakes. Career politicians ARE snakes and lawyers...well if there's something below snakes they are that.
We'll never really know how well another field would do because Americans view success in monetary terms. I don't. Call me a hippie or whatever
I'd place more value in a humanitarian vs any of the top 3 reptilian professions.
Congress is a joke. Single digit approval ratings but high 90's incumbency rates. That's game on a whole other level. They are ineffective, crooked, bought and paid for, but they've done such a good job of painting themselves as able and setting up the game to their advantage that we will continue to vote them in. If my children's future didn't rest in these crooked ass hands i'd almost respect the hustle.
No disrespect but you sound utterly enamored with businessmen. I guess i've worked with enough of them to know that most of the times they're just normal people. Kill any CEO and tomorrow guess what, that company moves forward. VERY VERY VERY rarely is there a CEO that is the heart of the company, THOSE are the ones with the potential to be great politicians. The rest of them are just people...and often shytty people.
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