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Today I saw a petition to get someone to run in 2016, looked up their background on Wikipedia, and saw they never ran anything in their life and they are not young. Now, I know voters can get carried away with promises from an inexperienced candidate but why would someone who deliberately chose a career path of non-leadership (analyst, consultant, legislator, lawyer, professor, etc.) think that they can just step into the White House and run a country and it's military?
Obviously, you don't actually know what's in a person's head who does this so it's a guess but why do you think, they think they can do it successfully?
Today I saw a petition to get someone to run in 2016, looked up their background on Wikipedia, and saw they never ran anything in their life and they are not young. Now, I know voters can get carried away with promises from an inexperienced candidate but why would someone who deliberately chose a career path of non-leadership (analyst, consultant, legislator, lawyer, professor, etc.) think that they can just step into the White House and run a country and it's military?
Obviously, you don't actually know what's in a person's head who does this so it's a guess but why do you think, they think they can do it successfully?
But today's republicans could care less about deficits, debt, or spending, rather they just want people connected to large corporations running our government.
I don't think the OP quite knows that a businessman is not a good person to head up the country. A country is not run like a business, end of story
Well, it surely should not be run by this approach:
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Community organizing is most identified with the left-wing Chicago activist Saul Alinsky (1909-72), who pretty much defined the profession. In his classic book, Rules for Radicals, Alinsky wrote that a successful organizer should be “an abrasive agent to rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; to fan latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expressions.” Once such hostilities were “whipped up to a fighting pitch,” Alinsky continued, the organizer steered his group toward confrontation, in the form of picketing, demonstrating, and general hell-raising.
Today I saw a petition to get someone to run in 2016, looked up their background on Wikipedia, and saw they never ran anything in their life and they are not young. Now, I know voters can get carried away with promises from an inexperienced candidate but why would someone who deliberately chose a career path of non-leadership (analyst, consultant, legislator, lawyer, professor, etc.) think that they can just step into the White House and run a country and it's military?
Obviously, you don't actually know what's in a person's head who does this so it's a guess but why do you think, they think they can do it successfully?
What is sad is that there are still people who believe the president "runs the country"
The last guy in office had run plenty of things. We were left with a near collapse of the global economy, 2 wars and trillions of dollars of new debt. You might want to pull your head out of that hole in the ground and come up with an argument that you can actually defend.
The guy before the last guy had as much or more to do with those wars and owns the economic collapse.
Well, it surely should not be run by this approach:
Community organizing is most identified with the left-wing Chicago activist Saul Alinsky (1909-72), who pretty much defined the profession. In his classic book, Rules for Radicals, Alinsky wrote that a successful organizer should be “an abrasive agent to rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; to fan latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expressions.” Once such hostilities were “whipped up to a fighting pitch,” Alinsky continued, the organizer steered his group toward confrontation, in the form of picketing, demonstrating, and general hell-raising.
That paragraph describes the situations at the Bundy ranch and the various anti-immigrant gatherings perfectly. Let's not forget the anti-abortion crowd. Good community organizers running those shows. Hell, Bundy says he thinks of himself as being like the Founding Fathers. In his mind anyway, the country should be run by that approach.
A good politician. Politics is both a skill and a science, and our best Presidents have all been politicians by the time they were elected, even if they had a different career path earlier.
The few able Presidents who had no political background were all tremendous thinkers and philosophers, but not all were good at business. In fact, most were not very good at running their private and personal ventures profitably.
As was said, governing is not business. It never has been and never will be. The best politicians all have servant's hearts.
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