Ironically, one thing I actually believed from his reality show that he was good at picking people. He is not.
“Ironically, one thing I actually believed from his reality show that he was good at picking people. He is not.“
Not fair.
The problem is that almost 100% of those people who seek public service are heavily biased against individual liberty.
Individual liberty and limited government are the central principles upon which this self-governing Republic was founded - and almost everyone actually in the government opposes those very principles.
If they didn’t, they would have remained in the private sector.
Reagan faced the same problem - anyone he could convince to join his administration was already a proven statist.
I deal with the same issue at the local level: our township’s borough council is constantly enacting overreaching ordinances and making busybody decisions that meddle in everyone’s lives for no good reason.
This is because the type of person who is interested in being on the town council is a proven busy body control freak or they wouldn’t be interested. Control freaks like to control other people. That’s what they do.
Liberty loving people rarely seek a job in government - when they do, they find no kindred spirits who share their love of liberty.
When I complain, people say “Then get involved! Run for office! I’d vote for you!” I say “That’s just it - being on town council is the very last thing I want to do - I just want to be left alone”.
I just want everyone to mind their own business - if they did we would need no town council. Or maybe the whole town could meet once or twice a year and see if there were any decisions that needed to be made.
The type of person that “gets involved” always thinks all sorts of stuff urgently needs to be done and everything needs to be regulated and controlled. That requires a lot of tax revenue - and it grows, and grows - full of hyper activist types.
You go in there and say you want to shrink government - NOBODY is on your side.