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Even if you are right about them being low quality (a disputed political opinion) it should be obvious that no 100% sane person would put their family at risk b
by burfog 8y ago
Even if you are right about them being low quality (a disputed political opinion) it should be obvious that no 100% sane person would put their family at risk by taking one of these jobs. Good people are thus eliminated from consideration. Those who feel that the choices would be low quality are thus forcing the choices to be lower quality.
Put yourself in their shoes. You have a normal family and could earn millions of dollars per years in a nice comfortable corporate executive position. How insane do you have to be in order to take something like $150,000 while living in the expensive DC area and being unable to simply go out to eat in public? What normal parent would subject their kids to the abuse?
Scaring away qualified people does not improve the government. You don't do that unless seeing Trump do badly is so important to you that you are willing to sacrifice the wellbeing of the country itself.
- mikeash 8y agoWhose families were at risk? Actual qualified people like Mattis and Tillerson faced little trouble. Even Gorsuch, who was the embodiment of a stolen seat, did just fine. What's scaring away qualified people is the proud ignorance and naked corruption of the administration.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoKavanaugh's
- dragontamer 8y agoHe's not in the executive branch at all.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoMoving the goalpost? Gorsuch was listed by the person I replied to. And it's the same when we're considering nominations in general. What happened to Kavanaugh could happen to any nominee, no matter the branch.
- mikeash 8y agoAnd yet it didn’t. I don’t see the example of Kavanaugh scaring away good people.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoYou're in denial if you don't think the orchestrated scandal that happened to Kavanaugh doesn't make people a little hesitant.
- mikeash 8y agoI can see how it might have, in isolation, but the trickle of qualified people dried up well before that. Nobody wants to work for a fucking moron unless they’re corrupt and think they can turn it to their advantage, or they’re a true believer.