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Originally Posted by vernarial
Then how did Bush rise to his current exalted position? He wasn't competent enough to run an oil corp or a baseball team. How is he supposed to run a country?
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The vast majority of government jobs are not electoral and the Peter principle applies to them directly. However, it requires a corollary when applied to elected officials: in a hierarchy every elected official tends to rise to his
perceived level of incompetence. Because elections are so fickle, true competence is indiscernible. Bush could be the worst president ever, or the best, but we'll never know as long as elections continue to hinge on his public image. In a couple decades when the Bush doctrine is no longer the central focus of politics, we'll be able to tell how competent he really was.