zorg1000 said:
Nah, I don’t think people should pick someone for president just because they say things they agree with but rather who can actually get meaningful things done. Could Cornell West have brokered deals with Congress to pass things like the American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Bill, CHIPS & Science Act, Safer Communities Act, Pact Act, Inflation Reduction Act, along with judicial & cabinet appointments? |
Why do you assume he couldn't? If you ask for prior experience doing it, you effectively restrict politics to career politicians. But politics is about stuff that effects everyone, so it shouldn't be easily left to the career politicians. And the old and experienced politicians have created all the messes, why do you think they are best suited to fixing them?
The reality is, that the US is still very bad in adressing income inequality, health care cost, drug addiction, education, child support and climate change. All these brokered deals have not solved these problems. So why do you think this is the right way going forward? Because it didn't work so far we try the same some more? Sounds like the perfect plan for downfall.
