Let the Obstruction Begin!

[JustWinBaby]

(11-17-2016, 02:34 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: So much fail, so hard, in so few words.

The career staffers who you claim would control foreign policy don't vote on foreign policy, either.  And who would be the expert, a one and done politician with no experience or the career staffer with the experience who the one and done politician defers to their expertise, as per your foreign policy career staffer example?  Unless you think one and done politicians are going to pick career staffers who aren't good at their job and aren't influential and don't have the necessary expertise to help smart people make informed decisions.  And if that is the case, why are they career staffers if they suck at their job?  And why would the one and done politician pick them for their expertise if they don't have any god damn expertise?  Are they going to pick career staffers without the necessary expertise to be career staffers just so they can ignore their input?

Ummm, being a career staffer means you aren't "picked" by any politician.  The stakes are higher, the issues more complex, and the experience/knowledge of the politician usually comparatively much lower.  This is the difference you can't grasp, and how foreign policy ends up being 1) a continuation and 2) effectively dictated by career staffers.....vs, say, HUD.

And with respect to foreign policy, we aren't talking a few "career staffers" but a ginormous bureacracy of the military complex, FBI, CIA, NSA and other organizations.  A POTUS is not making any significant/major course corrections - it's the height of arrogance to think you know better than the combined institutional knowledge of millions of people over decades.  It's why our policy evolves, for the most part, over decades and not with every Presidential election. And that's a good thing.

Again, my apologies for forgetting many people struggle to grasp what's actually being said and why.