While I agree with you, Stefan, I am not sure what "experience" makes a good politician. Looking across the political landscape, I can only see experience that makes bad politicians.
Sigh no, it’s because you went from being a waitress to being in Congress without any real intervening experience. I don’t care if my surgeon used to have a paper route – I do care if it was his job LAST YEAR.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1145476950346981377 …
In other words, Republicans who criticize my being a waitress as evidence of lacking skill can take their classism to the trash.
You are insulting the capacities and potential of virtually every working person in America (&the 
) for having experience that’s earned, not bought.
) for having experience that’s earned, not bought.
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This reminds me of Semi-Pro:
“How long you been working with bears?
Um just like a day or so
What?
But I’ve been working with cats for like 12 years.
So I’m very familiar with animals”
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A company goes bankrupt if managed by the employees. The same happens to a country.
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True, in cases when the employees take over the ownership of a company the survivable ones actually hire a boss.
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This sounds like an argument in favor of, at the very least, political science programs at universities and some sort of "political class".
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Does this requirement extend to other nationally-elected offices e.g. the Presidency?
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*and he wasn't in med school while holding that job.
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she had previous experience, as one of Edward Kennedy's interns, as social worker, as a volunteer translator, the only reason there was no intervening experience was because she was working as a bartender while getting elected. And working with drunks is ideal prep for congress.
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Who still has a waitress-level understanding of economics despite racking up over $100k in student loans getting a degree in same.
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It should not matter what congress-person's skills and experiences are. They should not be deciding our lives for us.
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She shouldn't have skipped her Congress class
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Some people just need every single thing spelled out for them.
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She’s so cute when she fights back
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Well said !
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