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Are you saying the least competent candidate is always the one who gets elected? Or just that only incompetent people become politicians? Those are both pretty

• ekianjo 3y ago
  > Are you saying the least competent candidate is always the one who gets elected? The skills to get elected rely on being about to lie to people and lie to yourself as much as possible and be a narcissist at the same time, so all of these factors make it VERY unlikely that they correlate with actual competency.
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• x-complexity 3y ago
  > Are you saying the least competent candidate is always the one who gets elected? Or just that only incompetent people become politicians? The candidate that is most capable of being elected is the one that either: - Can garner the most votes - Can prevent other candidates from getting votes Nowhere in the above is technical competency a requirement to be elected. It may help, but its far down the list of "electable attributes".
  • rightbyte 3y ago
    Another way of putting it is that the hardest thing with being a (high level) politician is being elected. I am active in my county and if you breath and can be nice for 1h we will give you a position somewhere.