“Ideas may be cut loose from experience in two senses: either they have no roots in experience, or they are not submitted to the test of experience. Either way, they are free to be foolish.” So wrote Jeane Kirkpatrick in the Introduction to her landmark book, Dictatorships and Double Standards (New York, 1982, p. 10).
Kirkpatrick’s statement applies perfectly to the band of naïve idealists now in change of our government. The youthful dreamers guiding the Obama administration have almost no private-sector experience. Like Obama himself, the Cabinet and host of czars who direct policy have spent their lives in politics or academia, be it as Democratic political consultants, professors, nonprofit directors, or community organizers.
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It is common for somebody who becomes a boss via the Peter Principle to surround themselves with people possessing a similar lack of ability. That ensures that nobody who works for them is more capable than they are. It goes a long way to ensuring the ‘boss’ can maintain his ’superior’ complex. Obama is such a complete and utter failure in every sense of the word that daily, hourly or minute by minute criticisms of his decisions would be never ending. Thus, out of necessity the Obama team was born.
It’s like a bunch of people reading about flying a plane as hobbyists, they may know the theory but put them in the pilot seat without actually having flown before, and no matter how much they have enthusiasm and confidence I really don’t want to be a passenger on that plane. LOL !