Ultimately, every life = "a lifetime of experience"

[whatchamacallit]

The question is, how do your experiences influence the quality of your decisions? I find it amusing when people try to reduce experience to a simple numeric tally; candidate X has been a politician for Y years, therefore they are best suited to lead... Apparently, it doesn't matter what they did for those years, or if their choices were any good. Many politicians spend their entire lives repeating the same mistakes over and over as evidenced by the GOP, yet somehow that's called experience.

[HeraldSquare212]

1. LOL - good point.

[Saturday]

2. In general I'd take the judgment of a 60 YO over a 17 YO any day. n/t

[whatchamacallit]

3. Did I miss something, is there a 17 yr old running?

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

4. Amen

I was just thinking about starting an OP making a similar point: Is "experience" really all that great? Or is there a point where "experience" ain't so great?

If candidate A has 4 years experience as a congressman and candidate B has 30 years experience running a brothel, who's got the better experience? :shrug:

[whatchamacallit]

5. Exactly

Personally, I'd vote for the brothel owner, as they'd likely have witnessed every possible human dynamic play out in their microcosm. They're probably already consummate politicians. ;-)

[NJmaverick]

6. Experience is ONLY valuable if you can learn from it

If you can't admit you made a mistake, like voted for the Iraq war, then it's useless.