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I would consider voting for a non-politician again, but it’s got to be someone surrounded but a loyal, equally smart cadre of supporters because, IMO, Washington DC is a swamp infested by a bunch of power hungry backstabbers.
An outsider is going to have to be very savvy to maneuver around all the snakes and not get bit.
I don't discount someone for lack of political experience but I want to understand what the candidate brings to the table. CEO experience, by example, is relevant to a point. But the candidate should understand the difference.
Two things: 1) the US government, at its highest levels, is NOT a business. It's the world's largest non-profit. That's why busi nessmen (Hoover, Trump) have failed as president. The mission is entirely different; the job is NOT about making money, it's about solving people's problems. This is why, by and large, state governors (and sometimes senators) have done well in the job. They need large, non-profit CEO experience. 2) I always say that craving a non-politician as president is like craving your next jumbo jet is flown by someone who has never flown before. No thanks.
Would you vote for a non-politician President in 2024?
Maybe, but no actors.
In a more or less popular electoral system in the age of mass media, the very definition of politician is actor in political theater. Very few, if any, of these politicians/actors in political theater are actual policymakers.
Voters choose among a bunch of actors in political theater.
Naturally the voters and the actors in political theater matter less than the actual producers, script writers and directors, whom the voters rarely see, if ever.
Having said that, voters may, once in a while (every 30 years?), be able to influence the producers and script writers by voting off-beat actors and third parties, and other ballot-paper tricks, and the population in general by certain behaviors that go against the script.
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Two things: 1) the US government, at its highest levels, is NOT a business. It's the world's largest non-profit. That's why busi nessmen (Hoover, Trump) have failed as president. The mission is entirely different; the job is NOT about making money, it's about solving people's problems. This is why, by and large, state governors (and sometimes senators) have done well in the job. They need large, non-profit CEO experience. 2) I always say that craving a non-politician as president is like craving your next jumbo jet is flown by someone who has never flown before. No thanks.
When they make my tax burden optional so that I can decide what I want my funds to be distributed to like any non-profit, then I'd vote for a non profit CEO. Too many non-profits beg for money and are beholding to special interests thus they have no skin in the game on how that money is spent. No Thanks!
Sure. Biden's only job in life was spending 45+ years as a politician. In less than a year he destroyed this country....the only advantage politicians have is "good old boys" network. You wash my hand, I'll wash yours.
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