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Donald Trump's approval rating goes negative in another poll
(www.newsweek.com)
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Fucking Schumer said his plan is to wait until it's below 27%, and then start trying...
So I don't get why 45% approval is a win if it's barely half way to dem leaderahip doing...
Well, anything
Imagine polling badly as the opposition when fucking Trump is in charge.
I feel like if we titled both as "rich people's approval rating " it comes into focus a bit more.
You got it backwards. He said he would bet that the republicans would wait till 40%, wile democrats are at 27%…. So even when trump gets below 40, the democrats will do nothing and sit there preparing their “i told you so speech” assuming that some republicans will walk over to them to receive it. He is playing completely passive.
Same thing is happening in politics that we see every day in the corporate world.
Being a great technical/production employee is generally an entirely different skill set than being a good manager/leader.
Yet somehow we always end up elevating the ones that show great technical skills into management, and they fail because they aren't built to lead, they are built to build.
Great engineers need great project management. If you're not a good project manager you're going to spend your time herding cats instead of getting shit done. Same thing is happening in politics.
Meanwhile, a few super-performers carry the weight of the whole team. See AOC, Sanders, Green, Warren.
I wish that was more often the case. I’ve never seen this once in my life.
As a counterpoint, I’d point to Boeing. They used to have engineers as management in their glory days, then once the business leaders of McDonnell Douglas took over, everything began to go downhill.
Not that I think what you’re saying is fundamentally wrong - they are indeed different skill sets - I’ve just not seen someone who’s great at their technical job get promoted to leadership. It’s usually social skills that get people promoted, in my experience. The people with great technical skills end up staying as worker bees, as they don’t want to deal with people, and get end up exploited by the ones with social skills.
No one in "management" in the Democrats (or Republicans) has ever demonstrated anything that would be akin to "great technical skill". It's not like Chuck Schumer was like really good at the technical aspect of writing bills.
I'd say the core statement is true, just not as you've outlined it: empty suits who can charm and schmooze those in charge get hired and promoted and they're neither good at business strategy nor personnel management.