In other words, you’re moving the goalposts and declaring victory. :rolleyes:
I have not moved the goalposts one inch. My position has been from the beginning that a modern democracy needs career politicians in government just like it needs professional specialists in any other highly complex field. It is you who are moving the goalpoasts, or worse, if you are still, at this point in the thread, claiming to have scored any touchdowns or field goals in that regard.
To be fair, moving the goalposts and declaring victory is less of a sin than embracing willful ignorance, ignoring attempts to inform, and then declaring victory.
It is absolutely necessary that someone in government know how things run. If not politicians, then the civil service. If we, as a country, adopt policies that insure that elected leaders must be removed before they accumulate experience in their job (and let’s be clear, running a city is different than running a state is different than running a federal government), then power is going to transfer greatly to unelected leaders.
But I’m guessing that you have a few choice words about know-nothing bureaucrats, too.
The upshot is that you simply don’t care for government very much, and would like to see it neutered. You may look at the plus sides for your ideological bent, for example, that poorly run governments might enact fewer laws. However, all it takes is one quick look at the multitude of poorly run governments (the City of Washington, DC being a great one) and find out that incompetent governments don’t get out of the way of the people, they make poor decisions and poor policies which are poorly implemented REGARDLESS of the ideological stripe of the parties in charge. The idea that know-nothings can run government is as foolish as thinking that we could take any old president, drop them into the role of CEO of GE, Microsoft, or Boeing and expect them to do well.