Elitist Defining Access to Elected Office

The recent addition of Donald Trump to the rank and file of the GOP hopefuls has elicited an interest response the most interesting being those in the media who are appearing more elitist than one should expect or perhaps even be willing to tolerate.

Whether or not one likes Trump (or not) is not the issue however, it occurs to me that when his capacity/qualifications are dismissed based on whether or not he’s fit – the operative qualifier being that he’s never held an elected public office – then does it not give cause to wonder that if the present state of governance (in the country) is a direct reflection of those holding elected public office. Perhaps isn’t it the case that the existing standard is a well below-the-bar prerequisite.

In other words, shouldn’t the standard be to expose the prospects of one’s competence as a measure of their demonstrated capacity for positive results and not their ability to conform to the mediocre standards of conformance?  Shouldn’t the function of the media be directed toward exposing the qualifying attributes and not the manufacturing of false narratives? Is it any wonder why the most qualified distance themselves from a process that by self-designed prohibits and/or discourages what it perceives as a threat to its prescribed standards of mediocrity?  How then does a process move thru its defects and on toward its highest possible capacity if the demands for that outcome are beyond its willingness to achieve it?

If the only good the likes of a Donald Trump (or a Rand Paul) might serve is to unnerve, expose and unseat the systems defects then I suggest that we become among his most rabid supporters.

Curtis C. Greco, Founder

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