This primary season has been famous for one thing:
The anti-incumbent sentiment.
I understand the feeling of many of the voters out there.
They feel that things have gotten so bad, it's simply not enough to keep flip-flopping Democrats and Republicans.
This makes sense.
The part that doesn't make sense is the idea that the only way to fix the system is to flood it with amateur politicians.
Just so we're clear, the system we're talking about is not a mini-van. It's not a junior high school. It's not an Xbox.
It's a government.
That means it's most closely related to HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Pump it full of people who don't understand it, and it will eat those people alive.
Pardon me for sounding like Dr. Phil, but I don't care how smart a hamster is--when you put it in a fishbowl, it's going to drown. It's not going to change the fishbowl into a hamster cage.
The solution to fixing a corrupt government isn't to elect people who are going to go in there and repaint the walls. The solution is to find good people who also understand how the system works.
We need to elect people who can show up on the first day knowing how to keep the machine running WHILE figuring out ways to reform it.
Frankly, it frightens me to see so many unqualified people heading into some of the most powerful jobs in this country.
When Obama was elected, the GOP complained that he didn't have enough experience for the job. Now, the extremists of that party are trying to get people elected who not only have little experience, but have ideas for reform that simply absurd.
I'm all for changing the way we do business in this country, but when you want to change things, you bring in someone even smarter and more experienced than the person you had.
The way to fix things is NOT to hand the keys over to a wide-eyed idealist.
We need a pragmatist right now, not a utopian.
And certainly not a hamster that thinks it can swim.
The anti-incumbent sentiment.
I understand the feeling of many of the voters out there.
They feel that things have gotten so bad, it's simply not enough to keep flip-flopping Democrats and Republicans.
This makes sense.
The part that doesn't make sense is the idea that the only way to fix the system is to flood it with amateur politicians.
Just so we're clear, the system we're talking about is not a mini-van. It's not a junior high school. It's not an Xbox.
It's a government.
That means it's most closely related to HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Pump it full of people who don't understand it, and it will eat those people alive.
Pardon me for sounding like Dr. Phil, but I don't care how smart a hamster is--when you put it in a fishbowl, it's going to drown. It's not going to change the fishbowl into a hamster cage.
The solution to fixing a corrupt government isn't to elect people who are going to go in there and repaint the walls. The solution is to find good people who also understand how the system works.
We need to elect people who can show up on the first day knowing how to keep the machine running WHILE figuring out ways to reform it.
Frankly, it frightens me to see so many unqualified people heading into some of the most powerful jobs in this country.
When Obama was elected, the GOP complained that he didn't have enough experience for the job. Now, the extremists of that party are trying to get people elected who not only have little experience, but have ideas for reform that simply absurd.
I'm all for changing the way we do business in this country, but when you want to change things, you bring in someone even smarter and more experienced than the person you had.
The way to fix things is NOT to hand the keys over to a wide-eyed idealist.
We need a pragmatist right now, not a utopian.
And certainly not a hamster that thinks it can swim.
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