Resident responds to letter in last week’s issue regarding government system
I wish to react to a recent letter to the RTT expressing dissatisfaction with our current system of government.I am not entirely sure what he means by upper education or upper people, but John A. Macdonald and George Washington, to whom he refers, governed at a time when only the upper class could aspire to a university education. Intelligence and ambition were all it took. It was the era of the “self-made man.”That time is long past as we have moved from an agricultural-small industrial economy to the complex, digitalized world we have today.The facts just don’t support the writer’s claim that most politicians are incompetent due to a lack of “real world experience.”
Bill Clinton, who got involved in politics shortly after graduation, left the USA with a surplus when he finished his second term as president.
Barack Obama, if I’m not mistaken, was a community organizer, lawyer, and university prof before entering political life. Perhaps that doesn’t count as “real world” experience, but when he left office, the US economy had experienced six years of economic growth and job creation.
Pierre Poilievre, who went from university to politics, will in all likelihood be our next prime minister despite a lack of “real world” experience. He may or may not be a good leader. The writer concludes by advocating for the presence of a Canadian Elon Musk or Donald Trump to run the country. I grant that Musk has been more than eminently successful in business. Will that necessarily translate into an ability to manage pensions, social security, purchase jet fighters or decide when to attack his country’s enemies?
However, Trump, with his multiple bankruptcies, convictions, and call for an uprising against a lawfully elected government, is not fit to prove he can run the government “more efficient” (sic). The makeover, we have already at our disposal. It’s called an election. I once heard a politician say that after every election, the people are always right. I would say something else.
After every election, we get the government we deserve.
—Lloyd Sayer
Amherstburg
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