Reply #130: Easy pickings

[dreamnightwind]

Sounds to me like an excellent way to insure that things are run by shadowy, behind-the-scenes forces, with the elected reps becoming mostly irrelevant.

It's a really complex world out there. Your suggestion would accomplish getting people in positions of power that have no ulterior agendas to serve, but it wouldn't put skilled and competent people in place.

If the reps are a bunch of ignorant average joes, I think the more savvy and diabolically brilliant career corporate goons will have a field day with them. Easy pickings.

I think this is really high-level work, requiring immense understanding and intelligence.

We could just say to hell with all of the complexity, seems to me to be what the repugs do since most of them can't get their heads around it anyway, but what happens then is that those that actually can and do master the ins and outs of how things work just do what they want while the reps argue about irrelevant straw men put in place to give them the appearance of relevancy. The repugs think this is fine since most of them are laissez-faire anyway, but we know where that leads, we're there right now!