Standee wrote:You think being a UN Peacekeeper gives someone a sense of reality, really?
Paddy Ashdown was a decorated soldier, he is still a halfwhit when it comes to modern life.
Hey! I'm attempting to be fair and non-partisan, here.
It's as much a reality as anything else – the thing about that phrase is that there's actually no such thing as 'non-real life', is there?
There are all sorts of different 'real lives' – teacher, business man, street sweeper, shop assistant, engineer, journalist, soldier – but they're all real. One isn't more real than any of the others.
I do entirely understand what you're saying about people who are career politicians and have never worked in any realm other than politics, and I agree completely.