Posted: 12/19/2015
Why is representative democracy so much in decline in the West in the eyes of its citizens? Why are serious reforms like more individual liberty and responsibility; small and limited government; and strict term limits for all in public office urgent and necessary?
Take Andrea Nahles, for example, she was born in 1970 and is a far lefty German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since late 2013, she is the Federal Minister Of Labor and Social Affairs in the cabinet of chancellor Angela Merkel.
Like many other German Baby Boomers, she studied German literature (Germanistik) for 10 years at a German university. She began her political career at the age of 18 and since then has never done anything else than work on her political career. At the age of 28, she became a member of the German parliament and has been a member ever since except for 3 years. She has probably never worked in the private sector in her life.
Most recently, she came out with new labor market regulations that are obsolete and contrary to the needs of the 21st century to please labor unions etc. She has it completely backwards.
How it is possible that this largely unaccomplished and economic illiterate career politician can become the labor minister of one of the leading economies of the world is beyond comprehension.
She is by far not the only career politician with a similar profile in Western democracies!
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