Sunday, March 29, 2015

Are You an Uninformed Voter? The Test

There are 15 Departments in the United States Federal Government. Each of them has a Secretary.

For example, Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense under President Bush.

1) Grab a pencil and paper
2) Name as many Federal Departments as you can (there are 15).
3) For each Department, name a Cabinet Secretary

The answers

To pass this test, you need to get 15 of 15. If you fail this test, you are not qualified to vote. If you pass this test, you are a nerd, and still probably not qualified to vote.

If you can't name the existence of a department, or the most influential individual in that department, how can you manage the department? In order to manage a department, you need a deep understanding of that department. You can't have a deep understanding of the Department of X, without several years of education in X. And there are 15 different departments.

People cannot elect their own government. Somebody else must make the actual decisions. Managing the government is an incredibly complex task, a thousand times more complex than managing a Fortune 500 company. And almost nobody is qualified to run a Fortune 500 company.

Democracy is a lot like Santa Claus. It doesn't exist, never existed, and can't exist. But it's a nice-sounding fiction that we tell to the gullible.

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