• DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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      18 hours ago

      In the wise words of Billy Connolly,

      The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.

      • seth@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        It’s true for leaders in general. The best leaders I’ve had were people who didn’t want to be, and each person I’ve seen focus on “leadership skills” and trying to climb a corporate or other power ladder has been abysmal at it.

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        10 hours ago

        I would like to see a minority of the house representation of elected people from individual regions with term limits, with a majority of the house being regular people randomly selected to serve for a defined amount of time.

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      19 hours ago

      Yup. We keep learning the same thing over and over: Don’t hero worship people, demand they be better and stay better or don’t support them.

      He will eventually do something that will make the OP situation look like nothing, just like Elon, Joanne, or Trump. It’s just a matter of time.