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Trump says he’d endorse Jake Paul for political office (www.usatoday.com)

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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Electing a legislator is not electing a dictator. The system was designed to give people with good ideas a chance to lead, not just professional politicians. Your attitude is borderline elitist and leads to the "ok it's my turn now" phenominon that's made the Democrats so ineffective in the last couple of decades. The only time anyone's gotten excited for them in recent memory was Obama, who had been a politician for a whole 4 years before becoming president.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Electing a legislator is not electing a dictator.

No shit. But you presumably still want qualified people doing the job?

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

As far as I'm concerned "makes good decisions" is a better qualification than "made a career out of running for office"

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And how does one typically get good enough at a job to "make good decisions"? And how would you know if they would "make good decisions" in that job?

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And how does one typically get good enough at a job to "make good decisions"?

Not being so power hungry as to choose politics as a career thereby losing touch with the rest of society is a damn good start

And how would you know if they would "make good decisions" in that job?

Idk maybe they could spend a few months telling us their ideas, and then the people could go and pick the candidate they like the most, like some sort of election

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Idk maybe they could spend a few months telling us their ideas, and then the people could go and pick the candidate they like the most, like some sort of election

You believe their lies?

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I might be more willing to listen if it isn't the same doofus who lied to me in the last election

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If they've held office before then you'll know from their track record what they are like without needing to trust the campaign trail blather.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, you know they're shit and keep electing them anyway. Like Nancy Pelosi.