You were doing pretty good with the history recap, right up to that point. My notions of what's needed aren't sloppy. They're based in what observably works in the real world.
Anyone with half a brain who's been watching current events for the last three or four years can see that we need some adult leadership in Washington again. And, even half-brained people can see that we're headed for dire times, if something isn't done to correct our course.
The country bet and lost on a relative newcomer with zero accomplishments, and no executive experience, in 2008. I, for one, will not support anyone for president, on just the strength of their ideas and promises, alone. I've got to see a fairly impressive resume, because frankly, too much is on the line, and we can't afford to get it wrong again.
If the country weren't two inches away from falling into the abyss, maybe I'd consider some charismatic and dynamic individual with a thin resume for president, but not now.
I only see one potential candidate out there who comes close to having all the right stuff to handle what's ahead, and that's Sarah Palin.
Read Amity Shales, The Forgotten Man. The best executive qualified, was Hoover( Washington excepted ), and he was bassically FDR/Obama light.
It’s called by economist, ‘The Knowledge Problem’. Like, after WWII, who would know that more Europeans, more Chinese, more countries would be enslaved by a brutal regime, then before the war. Hows that for 50 million killed? How was that for all the bright Harvard/Yale/Cambridge men with the recent memory of WWI behind them.
Just like Korea, where the ventran men and officers were almost wiped out by a China that was starving and was ink wet new country.
The Knowledge Problem even shows up in 9/11, the surprise fall of the Berlin Wall, Saddams attack on Saudi Arabia. Like, didn’t we spend tens of billion per year on so called intelligence?
Or on the recent 2008 financial collapse. Where were the SEC, Fed experts.
You never know, can never plan to know. Do you think Wilson and the allies would of sign a armistice with the Kaiser knowing their sons would die, and Europe destroyed in a generation?
It’s delusion.