I love that they won and I love the hope and expectation surrounding their victory but MAN have you ever SEEN a working group of 80 academics?

There's definitely a chance of failure here.

> It was an amazing achievement

Yeah, the thing that really strikes me is that their movement _did not exist_ in the last election. Went from scratch to power in three years. Whatever you want to say about their politics or their ability to lead...sure. But that's an incredible thing to do.

It simply can't work, somebody ultimately has to be in charge of a 15 person startup, it is literally impossible to run a country via committee

Amateur politician have good intentions but are not very effective. It's hard to get consensus when everyone has their own opinion. Professional politician have the background to get somethings done but yes they have thier own issues. My suspicion is that the new group might get a few items thru. Things that have been burning in the majorities minds but after that there won't be much done. It very hard to get people to agree, specifically intelectuals that think they are always right and can put up a good argument.

> Most parliamentary democracies assume you are electing a person with the knowledge/hope the party leader will be sitting in the big chair at the end.

In Germany the focus is usually on the parties and not the figurehead for over 70 years now.

edit: for the election

Sure, b/c all over history it shows students always know what for and why they protest... /s

> An electrical engineer who has helped design robots. An organic chemist who, during the pandemic, worked on COVID-19 drugs. An education researcher, a sociologist, several political scientists, economists, physicians, and medical researchers.

Diverse? Over-educated university graduates is possibly the least diverse set of thinkers one could hope to find.

> Dozens of them come from the academic world, and more than half have a Ph.D. or M.D.

Lord help up. This is going to be demonstration of hubris and an exercise in arrogance.

Fun fact: The US has only had one academic hold the presidency. He is also considered to be the worst US president in history.

Academics don't have a great track record in politics or governance pretty much anywhere at anytime in history.

US government organizations such as USAID and the CIA-adjacent National Endowment for "Democracy" backed this movement to the tune of millions of dollars, funding "civil society groups" and other NGOs. Yet supposedly it is spontaneous and grassroots, and we wonder how its governance will be decided.