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Inherit wealth or power
They inherit power or wealth
They inherit wealth which they use to buy political power
Competent at something else which provides leverage
Although they are #incompetent in respect of political leadership, they may be #competent at #something #else ...
... for example #standup comedy
... for example #showmanship
... for example #Gamesmanship
Figurehead
They set themselves up as a figurehead for some special-interest group
eg. rich powerful men who would benefit from Brexit
How do incompetent politicians rise to positions of political power ?
Corruption
They capitalise on a corrupt system of some sort
A corrupt system does not rank people on the basis of their competence, but instead ranks people on some #other-basis.
Eg. how good-looking they are
To be effective, political systems need to be able to repell and withstand corruption
Eccentricities and Flaws in political systems
They capitalise on some ecentricity in a political system
Eg. UK prime ministers can be replaced by their parties mid-term without having to call a general election
Why #Socrates was #skeptical about #Democracy
Happenstance
Take advantage of a happenstance to come to power
Eg. the 2019 UK political crisis caused by the 2016 UK Brexit referendum
Are they really as incompetent as they appear to be?
Actually they are not incompetent !
Secretly they are not as incompetent as they make themselves appear to be.
It is an act to lull political opponents into false sense of them not being a #threat
And lull voting public into thinking that they couldn't do that much harm because they're not clever enough.
Contrast Jacob #Rees-Mog whose reputation is #clever-but-evil with #Boris Johnson whose reputation is #foolish-and-corrupt-but- #not-exactly-evil