What are good politicians for?
It's a number of years ago, but I remember it well. I was going on a vacation abroad. With my family, to the seaside, in a Skoda car. A few weeks before the planned departure, we started to prepare at home the things we considered necessary and necessary for a holiday, limited in time. In our apartment, in various places, piles of clothes, cosmetics, shoes, sporting goods, as well as envelopes with confirmation of insurance, accommodation, meals, money, passports, sunglasses, first aid kit and many other things were created. Thus, standard planning for a relatively common event carried out by a learned amateur. But then an unexpected element entered the picture. A friend is a car mechanic and I told him, in no uncertain terms, that I was going to drive one thousand five hundred kilometres in an eight year old car. I learned what I should have with me in case something happened to the vehicle. He explained that there was no way he would be going anywhere that far if he didn't have everything on his emergency list with him. I had no idea that there were so many parts in my car that were important to its proper functioning. Given the modest boot space, I had to reject the vast majority of his ideas. A spare exhaust, for example, or a 20-litre can of petrol. If I had a pharmacist for a friend, I'd probably have to carry half a pharmacy with me, and a potential cook friend wouldn't let me travel without lots of food, side dishes and snacks. How do you not succumb to all the advice from experts, consultants and professionally deformed lunatics and find a balance between well-meaning advice? And here's where I thematically shift from vacation to regular civilian life. In all this tangle of information, data and data, someone has to find their way and make a decision. In today's complicated situation, but also at other times, at state or municipal level, this decision is up to politicians. They are there not to be swayed by the one-sided view of experts on particulars, but to be able to balance the circumstances. If they can't do that, we will go on vacation either with a spare exhaust or unprepared and defenseless as lambs.
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