Ignorance Is Bliss

I’m still getting emails telling me how great a president Trump will be. I hope they’re right. I don’t agree with much Trump says he will do, but I certainly don’t want to see our president fail. I don’t want inflation to get out of control. I don’t want to see rampant unemployment. I don’t want our food prices to increase by fifty percent. And yet, to be honest, there is something I don’t quite get.

If you were boarding a jet airliner, you wouldn’t want someone who had never flown a plane to be your pilot. If you were preparing for surgery, you wouldn’t want someone who had never gone to medical school and had no experience as a surgeon to operate on you.

If you needed an electrician, you wouldn’t hire someone who had no experience with electricity and wiring. If you needed a plumber, you wouldn’t hire someone who had never seen the inside of a plumbing supply store.

In fact, I can’t think of any field of endeavor in which complete ignorance of the job is considered an advantage. But the American public has decided that doesn’t apply to politics. Apparently, the less you know about that job, the more effective you will be when you get the job.

I don’t believe it. But we will see.