re: #167 doppelganglander

The best doctors I have met and whose services I have employed were not every-day people, but extraordinarily bright and well educated.

Likewise, the successful businessmen I have known have been a small minority… they have gifts and the willingness to use them… and often have extraordinary amounts of perseverance.

Leaders are not ordinary people. Yes, I know that in populism there is a belief that anyone can be a leader, and that might be true for the simplest of situations (say in a recreational setting), but for modern society in the large leadership will fall upon those who have abilities that many people do not.

Modernism relies upon a very fine division of labor. While I have no doubt that we in California would do better if some of the current Assemblymen were replaced or limited in their reach of powers, nevertheless I do not believe or desire that the “average” person off the street would do any better and likely they would do worse.