Tuesday 7 July 2020

Do business leaders have any business being president? Available evidence says no

Do business leaders have any business being president? Available evidence says no

Conservatives often extol the tough, no-nonsense approach taken by leaders of corporate interests as a way to run government more efficiently. But do businessmen really have any business being president? Theologian and philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr, in his essay "Perils of American Power," published in The Atlantic Magazine in 1932, wrote of the uneasy combination in the United States of economic strength and political incompetence. We may be a preeminent world power because of our economic strength, he argued, but we are "politically the most ignorant of modern nations."
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2020/06/30/do-business-leaders-have-any-business-being-president-available-evidence-says-no/?source=Snapzu

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