most Asian leaders have engineering degrees.
The flip side of the question is: Why do Western leaders generally lack STEM degrees?
Why should the US be ruled by lawyers?
The flip side of the question is: Why do Western leaders generally lack STEM degrees?
Why should the US be ruled by lawyers?
I'd trace this back to TR, the decline of machine politics and the rise of meritocratic city governance. Indeed, Barrack Obama offends many Conservatives because his background is as a community organizer, which harkens to their ear back to machine politics.
Obviously, this varies.
Seems much more natural with one of those degrees than a STEM degree.
Because STEM degrees don't give one any insight into governing people.
> Why should the US be ruled by lawyers?
Politicians make laws. Lawyers know the law. Seems like a good fit.
Honestly I think a lot of political disaster that is in the US could be traced back the the abundance of lawyers.
Seen from the outside, America to me is a country which has made every aspect of society into some form of legal struggle or court case. That just doesn't seem like a healthy way to organize society.
The polarized aspects of a court room, is reflected in American politics and public life itself. Politics is gridlocked because it is all about winning at any price. It is the logic of a lawyer.
I think this has become so ingrained in American phsycology that most Americans can't even see it anymore.