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[Mythsaje]

I mean table-top role-playing gamers. Put US in charge of agencies like FEMA. Not only couldn't we do any worse, but any good gamer is a master of improvisation...working with materials at hand to do something unexpected.

This may sound like a joke, but it's not. People just don't get it. You may have spent your high school years making fun of the D&D geek, but I'm willing to bet that, assuming s/he's any good at all, s/he would've had ten different operable plans on the table within an hour of the hurricane hitting NOLA.

You're talking about some of the most creative people on the planet. In the top percentiles in math and language. Expert scroungers and thinkers outside-the-box. We need people like THIS in charge, not pathetic yes-men who have to wait for explicit instruction to do even the WRONG thing. Not people who have shown a remarkable ability to screw up the simplest tasks.

This country needs leadership and people who can think on their feet. We have neither.