If one wants to become an airline pilot, they get specialized training to gain the skills to safely fly planes. If one want to drive a car, they get training – from a parent or a driving instructor – in how to safely operate an automobile. In both cases, tests must be successfully passed before one can partake in these endeavours.
When it comes to politics though, there are no barriers to entry; it’s merely a popularity contest. If you win, then you get to make decisions for thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people.
This discussion between Elizabeth Vargas and John Stossel resonated deeply. Featured within is an interview Stossel conducted with Aisha Chughtai, the Vice President of the Minneapolis City Council, the full version of which can be seen here.
Carefully listen to Ms. Chughtai and you’ll see a person who is deeply ignorant about basic economics and does not understand the first thing about how incentives make people do what they do.
Elections have consequences. Voting for ignoramuses, who are extremely unqualified for the super important jobs they’ve signed up for, is a certain recipe for disaster.
Circling back to the original analogy, if you are not a trained pilot, would you think about getting in a plane and trying to fly it? Arrogant people like Chughtai clearly would.
Too muntz ego i cud not spel pilut, now i are one.
It often comes down to people unqualified to vote, voting for people unqualified to govern.
The key to defending society against the vandalism of politics is to drastically shrink the influence and involvement of the state such that no one is interested in the job. Easier said than done of course but it emphasizes the importance of fighting every attempt at “new policies to keep up with the times” or responding to a public that “wants it to do more” or every other demand to grow leviathan into the monster it always becomes. A small government that does nothing is preferable than a large government that is “busy”.
Open Carry for tax paying citizens only.
No minion of The State can be permitted the use of deadly force..We have seen what allowing The minions of this State of Thuggery real weapons leads to.
This will shrink government abuse dramatically.
In fact it could lead to slogans such as “Elect more morons” or “Appoint more power-hungry twits” ..as targets are expensive.
Well, the Bible does state that we’re in trouble when our leaders are children and women…
In BC, maximum allowable rent increases for existing tenancies in the last 6 years.
2026 2.3%
2025 3%
2024 3.5%
2023 0%
2022: 1.5%
2021 1.4%
Average annual increase less than 2% for the last 6 years.
Nobody will build rental housing in BC if they are bound forever to such marginal increases.
In order to protect the productive from the opportunistic and parasitic, voting should be restricted to those who live in the province/country and own a house, and not those who rent.
And public sector union members should be excluded from voting due to an obvious conflict-of-interest.
The latter would not only decimate the communist NDP, but would also eliminate the motivation for the Liberals to grow the civil service.
Minnesota has a terrible case of parasites. Perhaps the worst in the nation.