Joseph, in The Corpus Collosum, is waving the banner in support of the Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act, which would prohibit the President from appointing unqualified individuals to critical public safety positions in the government. Cronyism certainly is not new. I’ll bet that the second caveman to make fire was the brother of the guy who first figured out how to do it. (Cavemen were also terribly sexist, you know.) Our history since that time is full of stories of career civil servants who quietly and expeditiously work around their politically appointee bosses to get their jobs done. Unfortunately, I doubt that passing a new law will change a thing. It will just create new hoops that have to be jumped through to get the cronies in place.
One would think that the president of this large “corporation,” the chief executive officer of the US of A, would not need a law to instruct such matters. I would hope that, as the person responsible for overseeing the execution of our laws, he would pick assistants, cronies or otherwise, who are capable of doing their jobs.
The real solution is to elect a president who has a proven track record of able administration. Ultimately, that requires that we voters take an active interest in local politics. We need to elect local officials who do quality work and then continue to support them as they rise through the system. We live in a republic and that means that we get to vote for pretty much everything. We are responsible for putting the people in office who jump into the pool of nominees for president.
You may feel like your vote for president does not make much difference. If you want to make a visible difference, get in touch with someone on your local school board, or your state representative, or your town council representative. These people get so little feedback on some issues that they can often count the letters and phone calls on their fingers. You will probably get a real response to your feedback, not a form letter. Do this a few times and you can make informed decisions about how to vote in the next local election. Who knows, you might be guiding and grooming the next president of the United States.
Are you up for a real challenge? Go out and get one other person involved, too.
