Asclepias
Diamond Member
The system was designed by your forefathers to facilitate slow change. Politics is a required part of being the POTUS. if you take out that check then you effectively have a dictatorship.I think you have mixed up politics and politicians. Politics is essentially the ability to get things done within the government. It is an EXTREMELY important skill for the president to have if you want to get those good ideas actually passed through the myriad of people that need to pass it in order to establish effective governance.Political skills are a definite negative IMO -- because they pervert the logic, reason and objectivity required to do what Camp suggested above. A background in any/many disciplines that promote PROBLEM SOLVING, organization and objectivity with the help of logic and reason is all that is required.
Politicians tend to waste time and energy on CRITICIZING a small set of solutions. Rather than working the problems to reveal NEW potential solutions..
And science, math, and engineering would be BEST place to pick up objective problem solving skills. INCLUDING the important task of weeding thru "expert opinions".. The "process" is more important than the particular advocation.
Oh hell no... The objective is to solve problems within the scope of the government's power to do so. If what you call politics stands in the way of solutions or causes solutions to be sub-optimal -- then you change the damn system..
Allowing the political system to constrain solutions is how you end up with duplication, economic inefficiency and poor performing solutions.. You win the consent on the solution by merit. Not by a process dictated by politics.
This half/half compromising is what got us to this point in the first place. If you formulate GREAT solutions, then it is already optimized for cost and effect and performance. That's what FedEx or the Red Cross would do...