freediver
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Nice, if they have them (management skills), but not necessary.
You are kidding right? A politician without management skills? Do you think they just say 'let there be light' and the light comes on?
What are they managing other than getting re-elected.
Err, the country for starters. What do you think they do?
Leave the management up to the bureaucracy, the public servants.
OK then, they manage the bureacracy. The control the flow of billions of dollars. I don't want to pay peanuts and have some monkey in charge of that. Bank CEOs don't serve customers over the phone, the don't program ATMs, etc. If you took the same obtuse approach to them you would get someone with a banking degree, pay them $100000 and expect them to manage billions of dollars effectively.
But this is what they should do. That's it.
No it isn't. That is not how our democracy operates, nor how it should operate. That would be a very inefficient system.
And that is the really scary part, the decisions they make in my name and on my behalf, secretly.
It's not that they do it secretly, it's that so few care enough to inform themselves. It's a full time job for a large number of people that is a significant burden on society. You would make it a full time job for the entire population, leaving no-one to get anything else done.
I think most people would rather be polled and represented.
I would like to be polled on who I want to govern and a few key issues. I would not want to be polled on every decision politicians make.
I'll take capable, from as large an experience pool as meets the requirements rather than the professional politician. The two party system is a complete rort.
You seem to have a misunderstanding of our political system. Once you are elected, you are a professional politician by definition, regardless of whether they meet your arbitrary criteria for suitability. The two party system is the democratic choice of the people, who place more trust in party institutions than individual politicians. It is democracy in action. The two party system is not a system, it is the outcome of the election. It is what people vote for.
If they really did, there would be far more united decisions made for the good of the country.
The disagreements you see are not manufactured. They are real and reflect real disagreements between real people. The disagreements would not simply disappear if those making them have the interest of the people at heart. That is an incredibly naive view.
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