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But being like that can get you elected.

• Freedom2 2y ago
  In what country?
  • tbossanova 2y ago
    Quite a few :(
  • chromehearts 2y ago
    All of them
• sim7c00 2y ago
  and getting yourself elected while being underqualified is intelligent? i think its not. its stupid and damaging behavior based in selfish desires. about as far from intelligent you can get.
  • rcxdude 2y ago
    Intelligence is seperate from goals: if you're only interested in gaining power and wealth for yourself, then concern about the rest of the system is only incidental to what you can get for yourself.
• throw4847285 2y ago
  That's a fallacy. There are certainly some unqualified elected leaders, but humans living in democratic societies have yet to shake the mental framework we've constructed from centuries without self-rule. We invest way more authority into a single executive than they actually have, and blame them for everything that goes wrong despite the fact that modern democracies are hugely complex systems in which authority is distributed across numerous people. When the government fails to meet people's needs, they lack the capacity to point at a particular Senator or a small party in a ruling coalition and blame them. It's always the executive. Of course, the result is that people get fed up and decide that the problem has been not that democratic societies are hard to govern by design (they have to reflect the disparate desires of countless people) but that the executive was too weak. They get behind whatever candidate is charismatic enough to convince them that they will govern the way the people already thought the previous executives were governing, just badly. The result is an incompetent tyrant.