StLGooner wrote:Angelito wrote:Royal Gooner wrote:StLGooner wrote:I'm seeing lots of Trump supporters starting to realize they were wrong. Even had a super conservative uncle announce that he no longer supports Trump on Facebook. Fair play to him.
He'll probably still win re-election as the Democrats don't appear to have anyone who could seriously challenge him. The only way I can see that Trump would lose would be if the Democrats picked The Rock as their candidate. It would work as he's charismatic, likable, the right skin colour to get back all those Obama voters and he's from Florida so he'll have that state locked down and without Florida, Trump will fall.
I like this.
Trump could then accuse the Rock of being born in Uganda.
After Trump, and now other celebrities seriously talking about running for President, it kind of makes me wonder if this will be the norm in the future. We had Ronald Regan in the 80's (who CR7 is named after btw), who was previously an actor, but none other since then before Trump came. Wonder if career politicians should be worried.
I don't like the trend.
When Hollywood and the media were cheering Oprah for 2020, I just wondered whether these people really understand that you need to be a strategist and a competent politician to run a country. It's all cool for celebrities stepping in for charitable causes, but they're not qualified for the job. And Trump, for sure in hell, was not qualified. He's only qualified to inherit a fortune from his father. You don't repeat the same mistakes.
These days, thanks to social media—or the alleged Age of Information—politics has become ubiquitous. It's everywhere. We, as a community, really do need to draw the line and leave politics to people who have dedicated their lives to it, rightly or wrongly.
I could go out there and charge a crowd with electricity with my dazzling speech - with my views and philosophy. But that doesn't mean I'd make a good mayor, minister, senator, or a governor.
Equally important to a country's political health is the civil society. That's another avenue to put pressure on the government and raise issues. Running for president shouldn't be relegated to a mere popularity contest, although - in some ways, it does feel that it's always about who's more popular.
Nonetheless, this trend only signifies that shift to populism. Tomorrow, any Tom, Dick, or Harry could come and whoever was more popular, catered to mass sentiments—even if s/he doesn't mean it—and had more money would end up winning it.
America's two-party system in itself is ridiculous if you think about it.
Hypothetically, if a third major party existed in 2016 and, say for example, it was Bernie vs Trump vs Hillary; there's no way Trump would have won the electoral college votes.