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Shallow personal narratives have come to dominate political pundits choice of candidates to support along with the pundits willingness to be compromised or focus on a few extreme issues.
Dallek claims the best U.S. Presidents vision, national consensus, political pragmatism, a personal connection with the people and credibility!
The public tends to be biased towards strong chin and confident smiles for politicians and other leaders.
The competent looking candidate wins!
H. L. Mencken’s Imperial Purple description of the U. S. President’s lifestyle still is timely.
Beware of any Politican who has addictions issues or a criminal past!
Politicians tend to become remarkably unimportant once out of office.
Polling and focus groups are often used to excess by politicians.
Politicians may be more interested in studying or controlling the extremes of the political, economic, social, racial spectrum than in the middle.
Centrist positions by politicians may be common of most politicians.
Politicians are not known for responsible behavior.
The National debt and deficit are indications that politicians are not known for their long range planning skills.
Political science and law, often the usual career path for politicians, do not tend to make for great decision makers about enormous assets.
Givebacks to either the poor or the wealthy may be the usual method to get into political office.
Almost ALL politicians have very little power.
Politicians may be almost entirely dependent on favors from other politicians.
Independent and creative thinking leading to better use of resources is usually not a great strength of politicians.
Politicians can help create and design programs or pass laws that may help the economy become more efficient.
The marketplace and the entrepreneurs who help built it tend to be more important than any program created by any politician.
Subsidization of business through hiring, plant, tax, land, or other resource credits is often the way politicians stimulate the economy.
Almost ALL health, education and welfare in the United States of America is OVER subsidized and improperly managed by politicians partly because they usually are unable to control the executive and judicial branch of the government.
Most people do not understand that the political climate tends to consist of a fiscally conservative/socially liberal mix. However, perhaps a better mix would be fiscally liberal/socially conservative.
Politicians have the less important role in maintaining the efficency, values, health, welfare, education and security of a nation.