>>a certain politician who had never run a company?
The Merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud
--Hosea 12:7
When politicians are manufactured by systemically corrupt institutions operating with no moral compass, the general result is leadership that does not operate in accord with the specified purpose of American governance:
"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men..."
To secure them from who/what? To secure them from the flaw of human nature that creates merchants who think using dishonest scales is "just bidness" as usual -- in that state of mercantile affairs where...
COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM
--Thomas Jefferson
All good points.