• cadekat@pawb.social
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      12 hours ago

      A democratic leader needs to accurately represent their constituents and surround themselves with knowledgeable experts. No matter how well-schooled someone is, no one person can know everything involved in running a country.

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          A degree doesn’t prove a person actually applied themselves and absorbed the information, and auto-didacts can absolutely study macroecon and diplomacy.

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            The lack of a degree is what is relevant here because it proves what they haven’t been educated in.

            She lacks all of the relevant math to be able to study macro. It’s not a subject that lends itself to self teaching.

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              You can absolutely self-teach math and macroecon. I’m not trying to claim that Swift has, or would, or that it is an easy thing to teach, but the idea that it is somehow outside the bounds of the auto-didact is absurd.

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                Im guessing you have zero education in either. It would take her a decade to catch up given how far back her education is compared to the norm.

                Think about how much your average person who has a GED knows, there is zero reason to expect Swift to be better educated than that person.

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                  Yes, and presumably anyone in the position we’re talking about is somebody who would have devoted a decade to their education in the field. Do you think I’m talking about “I do my own research” types? No, I’m talking about real actual auto-didacts.

                  Definitionally we aren’t talking about “your average person who has a GED,” Jesus fucking Christ.

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                    We are talking about Taylor Swift. There is absolutely no indication she has these abilities you are assigning her. She really IS someone who just has a GED in terms of their education.

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      She’ll have a full cabinet, policy crafted by an army, and practical experience under her belt. She’s clearly charismatic. AFAIK she’s not anti science or conspiratorial or anything… So what if she’s not a Harvard Graduate? As much as I’d like an STEM PhD in the White House, compared to most alternatives, I almost view that as a plus.

      And again, she will have so much power. It would be like Trump, where she can swing unpopular stances through sheer force of will (like Trump is doing in the current Middle East visit: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/15/trump-israel-syria-policy-reverse-biden )

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        None of that matters when the person making the final call knows less about how her job works than most of the voters. We need well educated leaders not people you can be almost certain do not know anything about the subjects needed to govern effectively eg the law, economics, history, diplomacy, and what the various parts of the government do.

        We should never select anyone that undereducated. It will always end badly because the leader cannot know what they are doing.

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          Ehh, I agree in principle but have grown cynical.

          The American voters clearly don’t care about actual qualifications. The presidency is an attention contest, pure and simple. Truth is relative. Even if we get a highly qualified president in (and I don’t believe that’s possible anymore) they’re going to be totally beholden to Facebook and Twitter politics memes.

          I’d rather have someone that can dominate the narrative and wield actual political power to do decent things, even if their decisions aren’t always the best. Like… who else could bring millions into civic engagement?