Running a Country is Harder Than Teaching Calculus

In the wake of an election, I have to express one thought. To all those who like the idea of "someone just like me" running things in Washington, chew on this: running a country is (much) harder than teaching calculus. In fact, running a country is harder than teaching the fundamentals of geometric invariants for manifolds in arbitrary dimension--whatever that means, but you get the point.

While most would recoil at the thought of having to teach their own children, or someone else's kid calculus, (most people simply recoil at the word "calculus"), they love the idea of someone equally ill-prepared-for-the-job running the country.

I have a suggestion. Just like we tend to ask those who understand calculus teach calculus, let's let those that understand diplomacy, economics, history, civics, etc., run the country.