Here's an interesting thought. Politician is the one career you don't need to take any training for. There's no courses in university or special schools dedicating to graduating politicians. There's no experience needed to sign up to run for office. Anyone can. You wouldn't go to a doctor who opened up practice first and then started trying to learn anatomy. You wouldn't go to a lawyer who set up shop but is only now figuring out his habeus from his corpus. But we let people with no knowledge of how the system works run it. Now, you might say "Oh but there's the civil service that really run things and those people are trained to do the job and know the regulations. There's the legal team that supports the politicians and knows how the system works." Sure, but again, that's like saying that you're going to go to a surgeon who knows very little about anatomy but is surrounded by OR nurses with experience. Do you want that guy taking out your appendix? And maybe that's why every country in the West is doing so poorly now.
he's been saying this for years
ReplyDeleteHere's an interesting thought. Politician is the one career you don't need to take any training for. There's no courses in university or special schools dedicating to graduating politicians. There's no experience needed to sign up to run for office. Anyone can.
ReplyDeleteYou wouldn't go to a doctor who opened up practice first and then started trying to learn anatomy. You wouldn't go to a lawyer who set up shop but is only now figuring out his habeus from his corpus. But we let people with no knowledge of how the system works run it.
Now, you might say "Oh but there's the civil service that really run things and those people are trained to do the job and know the regulations. There's the legal team that supports the politicians and knows how the system works." Sure, but again, that's like saying that you're going to go to a surgeon who knows very little about anatomy but is surrounded by OR nurses with experience. Do you want that guy taking out your appendix?
And maybe that's why every country in the West is doing so poorly now.
Is there any way to directly communicate with you, Rav Eidensohn? Came across your blog relatively recently and wanted to ask you something.
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