| starcraft said: Given this will probably be largely an American-politics thread, I'll throw in my two cents. Bush was a man who did what he said but what he said was normally no good. Obama is a man who has some decent ideas but is incapable/lies/is ignorant of his ability to implement them, and so nothing gets done. All in all the answer is no, America does not have the right people in power. It should have been Gore, and then McCain. Easy for me to say with hindsight of course, but it's the way I felt at each election, and an opinion I feel very vindicated in having now. |
Well I think most people can come up with instances in where they disagree with the outcome of an election. Hell I was hoping Ron Paul would win the Republican nomination and then dominate but that was never going to happen haha.
But this is trying to be a deeper question than that. Part 1 of the question is to simply gain common ground with everyone in the thread because I know everyone is going to be able to think of someone who shouldn't be in power. Then I propose an argument that possible could be the root of the problem... maybe we are thinking about who a politician is wrong. Which is why I proposed maybe politicians should be the well-educated in areas such as well politica science, philosophy, economics, science, etc. rather than business, law (although still needed of course haha), and religion. I even go as far to state that possibly we are deceived into thinking they are best for the job becuase they are good with rhetoric... something that Socrates would argue as well.
I would even propose another argument... maybe it's not possible for the "right" people to get the job because of the expense to run a campaign like it is here in America. Point is we all can have a subjective thought that the right people are not in power... but maybe we shouldn't just lay down and take it. Instead of accepting it, let's figure out the root of the problem.
