Obviously you haven’t read much history. Nepotism has been around for millennia and there has never been a truly merit based system. As the saying goes, “it’s not what you know so much as who you know.”
Obviously you haven’t read much history. Nepotism has been around for millennia and there has never been a truly merit based system. As the saying goes, “it’s not what you know so much as who you know.”
1) “Millenia” encompasses thousands of years, 2) nepotism exists in all levels of government, to some extent, as well as public and private companies and non profits, the reality is that connections between people matter in the choices we make as humans, 3) the reality is that John Quincy Adams and George Bush would likely not have advanced to become President if not for their fathers’ having been President, 4) I was originally responding to an assertion that RFK was not qualified, not talking about trump, who we all know is horrifically corrupt.
John Q. Adams and G.W. Bush were not appointed to president by their fathers. They were elected, which is not nepotism and not corrupt.
My wife and I and most of our friends worked in the U.S. Government for many decades, in the Executive and Legislative Branches and the military. We are unaware of a single instance of hiring a close relative. It is illegal.
I worked in government as a Public defender, my father in the VA and grandmother in GSA, for their entire careers. It’s naive to suggest connects don’t matter. The connections people make, including Adams and Bush, and you and your wife, give them an advantage when people are hired and promoted. Bobby Kennedy was more than qualified (certainly more and anyone Trump picks). And, as you should know, the AG has to be confirmed by the Senate. So, unless you are saying 51 Senators were related to Bobby Kennedy, the nepotism argument fails.
That continues to conflate corrupt appointments of close relatives, which was considered unethical before RFK appointment and illegal since mid-1960s -- with legal connections that ease a legal & ethical open election or leg up on getting an interview and hire by some non-relative.
Obviously you haven’t read much history. Nepotism has been around for millennia and there has never been a truly merit based system. As the saying goes, “it’s not what you know so much as who you know.”
That is not true in American history. Aside from the openly corrupt Donald Trump, can you name another U.S. president who has pulled such a stunt?
1) “Millenia” encompasses thousands of years, 2) nepotism exists in all levels of government, to some extent, as well as public and private companies and non profits, the reality is that connections between people matter in the choices we make as humans, 3) the reality is that John Quincy Adams and George Bush would likely not have advanced to become President if not for their fathers’ having been President, 4) I was originally responding to an assertion that RFK was not qualified, not talking about trump, who we all know is horrifically corrupt.
John Q. Adams and G.W. Bush were not appointed to president by their fathers. They were elected, which is not nepotism and not corrupt.
My wife and I and most of our friends worked in the U.S. Government for many decades, in the Executive and Legislative Branches and the military. We are unaware of a single instance of hiring a close relative. It is illegal.
I worked in government as a Public defender, my father in the VA and grandmother in GSA, for their entire careers. It’s naive to suggest connects don’t matter. The connections people make, including Adams and Bush, and you and your wife, give them an advantage when people are hired and promoted. Bobby Kennedy was more than qualified (certainly more and anyone Trump picks). And, as you should know, the AG has to be confirmed by the Senate. So, unless you are saying 51 Senators were related to Bobby Kennedy, the nepotism argument fails.
That continues to conflate corrupt appointments of close relatives, which was considered unethical before RFK appointment and illegal since mid-1960s -- with legal connections that ease a legal & ethical open election or leg up on getting an interview and hire by some non-relative.