Every hard right person I have ever met has thought they could do a better job of running things than the people that do it everyday.

Back in the oil biz days we would sometimes get into a situation where a calm hand and a steady eye was called for since a refinery was about to blow up or something. The first people to freeze up were the hard right guys.

We finally figured out that they were so rigid in their thinking that they had lost the ability to see the several hundred pathways available to dealing with the situation. They could only see one, and if it did not work they were totally lost.

Our Managers used to say that the only time they got worried was when they saw the wild men in our bunch get serious because they knew we were dealing with a lot of information at once. The only times they got scared was when they saw the hard right guys sitting back out of the way because then they knew they had nothing left to offer. When their one solution did not work they just gave up and tossed the problem to someone else.

Rant about this if you want to, but I put up with this for over 40 years and now I am retired.

That means I don't have to think about it anymore.