Why is everything related to actors and stages when it comes to politics? I've heard the words coined multiple times in the last week and I can't help but wonder... how many fellow american'ts may actually recognize their use in government. I mean.. it's hollywood 2.0 ::|
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If you are too ugly for showbiz, you go into politics. A magnet for
busybodies
sycophants
little criminals who want to become big criminals
sociopaths
attention whores
perverts
god complex
Note that tradies, scientists or engineers never go into politics. It's always the lawyers, economists and politologists who go there, or gas barons with no education at all. In the west, politics is about building your own gas barony.
Iran and China are different, though, and that might tell us something. Ahmadinejad is a civil engineer; the Chinese politbureau is mainly EEs (power/powerstations, not signal) and mechanical engineers. Xi is a chemical engineer -- just like Dolph Lundgren! Who is too handsome for politics!
I forgot military men, alright. That's actually typical for historical politicians.
Reagan is an outlier for most categories, as is Trump.
You are right in that those are exceptions, but I was talking about contemporary congress and small-time local politicians, especially in Europe.
Merkel has a PhD in technical physics or something like that, but she was forced to enroll by the GDR regime or something and actually wanted to go into humanities.