Just imagine for a minute trying to run a billion dollar corporation...those things are complicated. And you have enemies and they are trying to take you out all the time. You look at Apple and Samsung and they are just torturing each other in the courts non-stop. If you are running a big corporation you'll be handling two or three hundred lawsuits at a time.So, Peterson is describing the natural order of things. And then I think of the Leftist criticism of our President because, as a businessman with national and international interests, Trump gets sued a lot.
Officially, I am agnostic on this question: do the Left actually understand the situation and are just talking shit to score political points, or do they really not know? I have to believe that some of them know. And then there is the case of the famous Leftist U.S. senator George McGovern.
George McGovern (d. 2012) was the Elizabeth Warren of the 1960's and 1970's (except he was a decent person), the Old Battle Axe of the Left. After spending most of his adult life in public service, McGovern retired, and purchased and operated an inn in Connecticut. For the first time in his adult life, he worked in the private sector, responsible for employees and customers and meeting a payroll and paying vendors, etc. His reaction?
In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business, especially during a recession of the kind that hit New England just as I was acquiring the inn’s 43-year leasehold. I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better U.S. senator and a more understanding presidential contender.He went bankrupt.
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