Confirmation hearings are pathetic to watch and the people running them are as well

Imagine this:

You get an opportunity to interview for a job. You have to have your background checked (which is normal operating procedure), and you have to disclose any and all potential conflicts of interests. You talk to some employees at the company to see what’s the temprature of the management.

Finally the day comes and you get to meet with some of the senior members of the company. You sit down and start talking, and most of the interview is more about anything and everything they found in your past,much of which is irrelevent to the role you are interviewing for. They ask about any legal issue that came up in the past, no matter if it was a year or over 20 years ago and no matter if anything resulted from it. You are asked about some of your intimate relationships with people and some of the details no matter how private. You spend the entire time defending every slight or faux pas that has happened in your life outside of work, and maybe 10-20 minutes about your work history or your goals/ideas for the role you are there to interview for..

What I wrote about is what anyone who is trying to be confirmed for a cabinet position or even Supreme Court spot. The hearings are just one public circus for politicians to trying to get more clout with a “gotcha”,and not do their job in scrutinizing someone for the role they are a candidate for. No one cares if they went out to a strip club with co-workers afer work. No one cares if the candidate is some sort of addict if the candidate has shown to not do their job when needed. No one cares who they slept with and where. The only questions that should be asked are things ilke “Can you do the job?” “WHat would you do in the position that your predecessor couldn’t or wouldn’t?” , or just questions to figure out if the persone knows what to do.