What can the next U.S president realistically do to fix the problems Bush and Obama created?

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the_dengle said:

vivster said:

No democratic leader has any power.
Democracy is ruled by the majority and the majority are idiots.

What we need is a dictatorship. Problem solved!

Benevolent dictatorship is a pretty good way to run a country. It's just so damned hard to find someone who wants to be a dictator and who is benevolent, so it's not a reliable long term proposition.

Frankly I don't know why you bother with a president, or at least bother with having a president with the least bit of power. Oddly you rejected monarchy way back when, but now all European monarchs basically only have ceremonial functions and certainly have no power or say in the day to day running of a country nor its economic and social direction. But the USA has, effectively, a temporary monarch who actually wields some limited amount of power, and who gets to if not set the policy direction heavily influence it.  You've actually ended up being more of a monarchy than the old European monarchies. And monarchs probably don't cost that much more to maintain than a president. And being apolitical monarchs can be a unifying symbol for a country, rather than the ever divisive partisan president.

We'll be a republic some day, and I hope when that happens we avoid the stupidity of having a president. I'd much rather have the English monarch remain as the figurehead head of state than live in a republic with a president who has actual power.