Please provide me with a little insight in this matter because it seems to me that our country never got beyond the elementary popularity-based election strategy. Has anyone else noticed that the people we are voting for are nothing beyond average? When did we start trying to assimilate our highly intelligent into our average public schools? When will we again be in a time that our most influential leaders are also our most trusted advisors? When will we start asking the right questions, and when will we start trusting those giving us the answers?
2007-07-26 05:28:52 · 16 answers · asked by bo_cvr 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Intelligence has nothing to do with one's leadership ability.
2007-07-26 05:31:41 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled off was convincing people that he does not exist.
There is an agenda but we cannot see the forest through the trees.....There is ALWAYS an Agenda!+
It is usually masked in America as what the "people" want. Yet when it is so obvious that what the people want is not getting done than it is masked as "gridlock", "obstructionism", or Phillerbuster. Therefore the real agenda moves forward until a new focus can return it to the mask of what the "people" want.
2007-07-26 05:34:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People vote based on popularity and promises.
Despite the fact that historically, politicians routinely fail to live up to their promises.
Smart people often have no interest in telling others what to do -- which is why the people who want to dominate others are the ones who go into politics.
2007-07-26 05:35:58 · answer #3 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What sane man would put up with the sanctimonious invasion of privacy a candidate for President now has to endure!
2007-07-26 05:33:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are two reasons.
1. They didn't run.
2. Americans didn't vote for them.
2007-07-26 05:32:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You've answered your own question. As an intelligent, thoughtful person, would you want to enter politics?
2007-07-26 05:33:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you want a country run by brain surgeons and particle physicists? Think for a moment about how universities - crammed full of brilliant tenured professors - are run.
2007-07-26 05:32:37 · answer #7 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The smarter people are smart enough not to go into politics and do quite well in the private sector.
2007-07-26 05:31:54 · answer #8 · answered by booman17 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Smart people are too smart to get tangled up in politics to that degree.
2007-07-26 05:37:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hope you aren't referring to Bush. He did the best he could, with his limited mental capacity.
Have you ever noticed that politicians are always rich and don't concern themselves with the "trivial" problems of the working class?
2007-07-26 05:42:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They are smart enough to stay away from politics
2007-07-26 10:40:00 · answer #11 · answered by Sal SR 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋