Winston Churchill

There is no field of endeavor, level of education or experience that does not include very wise and responsible people as well as containing buffoons, incompetents, grifters and deceitful , power hungry individuals such as folks like DeBlasio and Obama.

By the way, I happen to like Cruz and Tom Cotton, and several other politicians as well.

There is no way that any set of rules can be 100% effective. Just because you must pass a test to obtain a drivers license does not mean there are not really bad drivers out there.
But removing the requirement of passing a driver’s test does not solve the problem of lousy drivers. It can only hope, perhaps, to minimize the problem; sort of, and not to effectively.

Requiring folks to have held real jobs in the private sector and being 45 years of age of older before they can take a public office position can only hope to somewhat minimize fraudsters like a Bernie Sanders (how many jobs has he ever created ?) or DeBlasio or an Obama – how many real jobs have the latter two ever created or even had? – from taking powerful positions within govt.
Recall that Obama , prior to becoming president, never held a real job in his entire adult life, but he certainly knew how to fling the bullshit right into the presidency.

It certainly could not prevent “bad drivers” from assuming powerful political positions and it would most certainly preclude very qualified, decent, really smart people from politically powerful positions, such as a Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz.

Of course, no rule at all would be necessary if voters, in general , would make wiser choices (DeBlasio was voted in as mayor TWICE !!) . Voters making bad choices was a problem that the founders of this nation worried about and was a central motivation in their establishing the electoral college.

Anyway, maybe some commentators on NEO’s blog can suggest some other way that DeBlasio types taking politically powerful positions can be minimized.

Or maybe it must be accepted that in a representative democracy, fraudsters will be able to elected to any political office, including the presidency.

Not when you reflect that New Yorkers love living in “shirt.” They got their little leftist manipulated democracy good and hard. They deserve and they will get more..”

It’s no mystery. They’re morons.

“My father was employed as a mathematics instructor in the Air Force from 1948 to 1950. You think he should have been banned for life from running for town board in New York?”

Yes, but only because he is related to you.

But in general, those who have served in the military, police, fire, etc. should not be banned from running for office.
Why?
Because in their line of work, they potentially have something to lose; their lives.

Contrast this to those, like DeBlasio, (or Obama) who, by virtue of the “work” they did, have ZERO to lose.
He will retire with nice benefits, etc. despite the horrible job he did as mayor. He, and people that have pursued careers like him, earn an income / benefits that are independent of their competence or accomplishments (or more precisely, lack of accomplishments).
Further, get ready to see him again in some political role or helping run another’s political campaign and get handsomely paid for this “work.”

Folks who work in the private sector, in general, have to “produce” to keep their jobs. They have to meet goals or they are out of a job and/or get stuck at the lowest rungs of their jobs. Their abilities and accomplishments will affect their income and economic success.
None of this applies to “public service” jobs, where length of service is all that matters and one’s incompetence does not place their employment at risk.

My father was employed as a mathematics instructor in the Air Force from 1948 to 1950. You think he should have been banned for life from running for town board in New York?

There should be a law that anybody seeking public office, at any level, must be above the age of 45 and whose work experience must have been in the private sector, never have been employed by or for a politician or political campaign , never have held any sort of public office and never have worked for any govt. agency at any level.
These requirements would have prevented about 50% of all people in public office from being in public office.

DeBlasio, like Obama, rose to high levels of public office because they are good bullshit artists and con men and are expert at sucking up to deep pocketed, influential movers and shakers.

Of course, if not for the stupidity of the voters, DeBlasio and Obama would never have been elected to anything.
Maybe there should also be some real restrictions on who can vote???

Friedrich Trump was married in Kallstadt, Bavarian Palatinate, in 1902, 17 years after arriving in the US. He was married in a Lutheran congregation and listed his father as ‘Johannes Trump’ and his mother as ‘Kathar. Kober’. There was in Kallstadt a ‘Konrad Trump’ baptised on 17 November 1867, son of Johannes Trump and Katharina Kober.It’s the right vintage to be the brother of Friedrich Trump, who was born in 1869. There are several other baptismal and burial records on their children. Kallstadt as we speak has about 1,200 residents. What’s the contention, here? That, in a village that size, he appropriated the names of some other local couple and listed them as his parents?

Warren Wilhelm Jr. changes his name (twice, IIRC) to de Blasio.

Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz changes his name to John Stewart.

Yet DJT’s *grandfather* changing his surname from Drumpf to Trump is a source of mockery of DJT. It is a puzzlement…

That, and the fact that times were good in 2017, and, thankfully, DeBlasio is sufficiently lazy that he hadn’t done much of what he threatened to do–yet. A lot of the damage was in his second term, and not just from Covid. And, of course, Republicans could not manage to put up a credible candidate, either in 2017 or 2021.

Adams ran as a moderate, but on anything but policing issues he’ll be as bad as his predecessor.

Been quite a bit of competition for the title over many decades. Consult the register of those who’ve been Mayor of Detroit, Washington, Baltimore, Rochester, Minneapolis… And supplemented with an all star cast of DAs: Krasner, Gascon, Boudin, Foxx, Gardner, Mosby… The sheer fecklessness of the voters who put them in office is stupefying. (Then again, they put a dementia patient in the White House).