Harris may have been light on policy, but she was able to bait an ‘unhinged’ Trump into a number of traps

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    In a system where a single person gets full executive authority, I want to see what they are like in difficult situations.

    I can’t vote for policies. I have to vote for a meat bag. I want to see the meat bag perform.

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      6 days ago

      In a system where a single person gets full executive authority,

      Well, that’s the problem, isn’t it. No single person should have that much authority. But, regardless, does this debate platform really tell us all that much about how a person is likely to perform as chief executive? I’m not so sure. I think a person can do relatively well in a debate performance and still end up being a poor president.

      I can’t vote for policies.

      But you can vote for a representative (two, actually) who can vote for policies. That’s where our focus should be, I think. I’m not really sure why we need a president, to be honest. A single individual with that much power, who isn’t even elected by popular vote, seems undemocratic to me.

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        6 days ago

        You mean I can vote for meat bags?

        The entire us constitution is about meat bags sitting in meat bag chairs.