Post #755 by Umm on the US Policy board

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"Box checking versus genuine merit lives on both sides of the isle but in general I think it is pretty clear that liberals are more influenced by that tendency than conservatives."

Do you have data to support that assertion or is it just one of those things that you "know" is true (i.e. you blindly believe it and your information sources just reinforce that view)?

I mean look at the last administration. Other than a couple of generals (who Trump later attacked as incompetent and pushed out of their positions), very few cabinet appointees were appointed on merit. Most of them were appointed because they were wealthy CEOs (Tillerson, Ross, Mnuchin, Purdue, DeVos, McMahon etc.) and that appealed to Trump or they were political appointees (Meadows, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Chao, Zinke, Pruitt) or they "checked boxes" as you like to say (Carson, Haley, DeVos).

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