Des Moines Register, the influential newspaper of Iowa, the first state to host the 2016 Presidential Primary, has published a scathing article on Donald Trump on its editorial page... "it's dangerous to have such a person running for the leader of the free world with fingers on the Nuclear Button."
The editorial isn't far from truth. The President of United States is arguably the most powerful position on earth. It's dangerous to have a megalomaniac in Trump running for it and still leading the Republican pack. (I am sure his bubble will burst soon. If by some fluke he gets the Republican nomination, Hillary is going to have a cake walk to White House).
The billionaire Trump just boasted that if elected, he will build a fence on Mexican border and make Mexico pay for it. A nation is not run like a corporation. You can't build a fence and bill your neighbor, as you send invoices to your clients in a business. Managing a country is not a business of managing a boardroom or balance sheet. It's takes lot more than that.
It had been observed that Businessmen make poor politicians, national leaders or statesmen. Mitt Romney, a seasoned businessman who could have been an exception to the rule, failed to enthuse electorates in the citadel of capitalism. Rarely we have seen eminent business persons at the helms of the affairs of a nation. I personally admire and respect businessmen for their vision, acumen and stewardship. They make champion managers, have exemplary people skills and guide their corporations to pinnacles of success. However their leadership is mostly limited to their boardroom, rarely beyond that.
Mitt Romney vindicated the fact. Despite his best efforts he could not get rid of the stigma of vulture capitalist. He could not connect to the commoners especially in a country where business and business men are not so frowned upon unlike in India where business folks are not a whole likable lot. History stands as a testimony of to this fact. Our great great leaders Mahatma Gandhi, Subas Bose, Indira Gandhi (arguably the most manly Prime minister we ever had) did not have any business background. In America, the most capitalist friendly country in the world, not anyone from Roosevelt, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton or Obama have business background. So also Churchill and Thatcher. So also the myth that a business person would make a national leader still lives on and yet to be vindicated.
The editorial isn't far from truth. The President of United States is arguably the most powerful position on earth. It's dangerous to have a megalomaniac in Trump running for it and still leading the Republican pack. (I am sure his bubble will burst soon. If by some fluke he gets the Republican nomination, Hillary is going to have a cake walk to White House).
The billionaire Trump just boasted that if elected, he will build a fence on Mexican border and make Mexico pay for it. A nation is not run like a corporation. You can't build a fence and bill your neighbor, as you send invoices to your clients in a business. Managing a country is not a business of managing a boardroom or balance sheet. It's takes lot more than that.
It had been observed that Businessmen make poor politicians, national leaders or statesmen. Mitt Romney, a seasoned businessman who could have been an exception to the rule, failed to enthuse electorates in the citadel of capitalism. Rarely we have seen eminent business persons at the helms of the affairs of a nation. I personally admire and respect businessmen for their vision, acumen and stewardship. They make champion managers, have exemplary people skills and guide their corporations to pinnacles of success. However their leadership is mostly limited to their boardroom, rarely beyond that.
Mitt Romney vindicated the fact. Despite his best efforts he could not get rid of the stigma of vulture capitalist. He could not connect to the commoners especially in a country where business and business men are not so frowned upon unlike in India where business folks are not a whole likable lot. History stands as a testimony of to this fact. Our great great leaders Mahatma Gandhi, Subas Bose, Indira Gandhi (arguably the most manly Prime minister we ever had) did not have any business background. In America, the most capitalist friendly country in the world, not anyone from Roosevelt, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton or Obama have business background. So also Churchill and Thatcher. So also the myth that a business person would make a national leader still lives on and yet to be vindicated.
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