Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, erstwhile candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2020, and former mayor of South Bend, IN (population 103K), has had a rough tenure.
“Now, a good manager does not need to be a top expert in the field that he manages, and a capable person can do well even in a new space, so I'm not going to play the credentials gambit I see so often. Performance is the true telltale, and Buttigieg's performance so far seems to be more about woke than about the nuts and bolts of keeping the country moving. The guy in charge doesn't get to declare "I'm on paternity leave" in the midst of a crisis, he shouldn't be cramming ESG requirements into a system badly in need of modernization, and servicing the demands of the global warming catastrophe crowd should not take priority over the people who need their roads passable, their goods delivered, and their necessities of life available.“
I live on a little farm in very rural Georgia. I frequently get the impression that millions of decision makers don’t know “who we are or what we do.” I will go out on a limb and *assume* that they think we are are *all* “poorly-educated.” Mike Bloomberg, a few years ago, said (paraphrasing) “All there is to farming is to dig a hole and drop seeds in.” REALLY??? I wish I could have brought my late (WW II veteran) cousin back to life, who got a PhD, and who taught at LSU. There’s a *lot more* to farming than merely dropping seeds in holes.
I mention this because “solar farms” are going up all around me. I don’t *hate* them, but, they *do* have some minor environmental impacts (I note muddy red water in local streams, downstream from the construction sites) *and* they take land that might have produced trees, pastures or forages (or other crops) out of production for many years.
The primary measure by which one measures a Transportation Secretary's competence is the extent to which nobody can name who the Transportation Secretary is. Everybody knows who is our current Transportation Secretary...for a reason.
It seems obvious at this point that the Democrat agenda, including Biden's entire administration, is based on its participants' liberal bona fides rather than proven performance or ability. Not only Biden's choice of VP and cabinet ministers, but state elections like Fetterman's, demonstrate conclusively that as long as a Democrat mouths the right words and is a member of an "oppressed" minority, they are eminently electable. Unless there is a strong reaction to the poor performance of these appointees in future elections, I fear that our country is lost. And of course, this same attitude is responsible for the corrosive effect of equating superior performance and hard work with white supremacism. George Soros has openly stated that he wants to deconstruct western civilization, and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in pursuit of that aim, including the appointment of prosecutors who refuse to prosecute. Looks like it's working.
“Now, a good manager does not need to be a top expert in the field that he manages, and a capable person can do well even in a new space, so I'm not going to play the credentials gambit I see so often. Performance is the true telltale, and Buttigieg's performance so far seems to be more about woke than about the nuts and bolts of keeping the country moving. The guy in charge doesn't get to declare "I'm on paternity leave" in the midst of a crisis, he shouldn't be cramming ESG requirements into a system badly in need of modernization, and servicing the demands of the global warming catastrophe crowd should not take priority over the people who need their roads passable, their goods delivered, and their necessities of life available.“
I live on a little farm in very rural Georgia. I frequently get the impression that millions of decision makers don’t know “who we are or what we do.” I will go out on a limb and *assume* that they think we are are *all* “poorly-educated.” Mike Bloomberg, a few years ago, said (paraphrasing) “All there is to farming is to dig a hole and drop seeds in.” REALLY??? I wish I could have brought my late (WW II veteran) cousin back to life, who got a PhD, and who taught at LSU. There’s a *lot more* to farming than merely dropping seeds in holes.
I mention this because “solar farms” are going up all around me. I don’t *hate* them, but, they *do* have some minor environmental impacts (I note muddy red water in local streams, downstream from the construction sites) *and* they take land that might have produced trees, pastures or forages (or other crops) out of production for many years.
The primary measure by which one measures a Transportation Secretary's competence is the extent to which nobody can name who the Transportation Secretary is. Everybody knows who is our current Transportation Secretary...for a reason.
I could have sworn I read that Mayor Pete was on maternity leave...
It seems obvious at this point that the Democrat agenda, including Biden's entire administration, is based on its participants' liberal bona fides rather than proven performance or ability. Not only Biden's choice of VP and cabinet ministers, but state elections like Fetterman's, demonstrate conclusively that as long as a Democrat mouths the right words and is a member of an "oppressed" minority, they are eminently electable. Unless there is a strong reaction to the poor performance of these appointees in future elections, I fear that our country is lost. And of course, this same attitude is responsible for the corrosive effect of equating superior performance and hard work with white supremacism. George Soros has openly stated that he wants to deconstruct western civilization, and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in pursuit of that aim, including the appointment of prosecutors who refuse to prosecute. Looks like it's working.
I am reading widely on Substack these days and enjoying your pieces, including this piece on identity-merit Pete, as much or more than ever, Peter.
Thank you!