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>serve the monopolists, and to strengthen the market stagnation by preventing any trace of competition. Of course in exchange for generous bribes (aka donations
by wallace_f 10y ago
>serve the monopolists, and to strengthen the market stagnation by preventing any trace of competition. Of course in exchange for generous bribes (aka donations) to the likes of her.
Somebody coming from real estate, like Trump, sounds like the ideal person to put someone like that in that role. However, coming from law or politics also would be a great background, as well.
>Why are such people even being voted for?
When was the last time a self-made engineer, scientist or doctor was president? Ever?
The qualities it takes to become president in modern America are the exact qualities which should disqualify you from being President. This includes both Clintons, Trump, Bush and yes, even Obama.
- Cd00d 10y agoBen Franklin! He was all three! (I feel funny)
- forgotmysn 10y agoBen Franklin was never a president
- Roodgorf 10y agoEasily my favorite president! Just how many executive orders did HE enact?
- bobwaycott 10y agoFranklin was never President, unless you mean of his tenure in Pennsylvania shortly before his death.
- Cd00d 10y agoFelt funny, but turns out I was hilarious.
- zachrose 10y ago> When was the last time a self-made engineer, scientist or doctor was president? Ever? Your best bets would be Carter, Hoover and Jefferson.
- jeffwass 10y agoAlbert Einstein was offered the second presidency of Israel, unsolicited, to succeed Israel's first president Chaim Weizman. He declined.
- wallace_f 10y agoIt would have been a nightmare for Einstein. He was a scientist, lover, and musician at heart. He even, while not officially rebuking Israel, was very critical of it. The right wing ideology and cultural/racial monopoly/supremacy, especially.
- rat87 10y agoThis doesn't give enough context while he was critical of certain things and of the then weak right wing parties that were the predecessors of today's Israeli right he was a big supporter of Israel especially as a fundraiser He was on the board of deputies of Hebrew University and donated his papers to it
- wallace_f 10y agoYes that is true. I didn't say he disapproved of Israel. I think we're in agreement: as you said, he disapproved of the right-wing predecessors of modern-day Israel. He was very, very critical of them, and even compared them to Nazi Germany (his words). >a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. source: https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948 https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYork... Today it's not hard to find op-eds criticizing Einstein as being "wrong" on this.
- rat87 10y agoNote that the presidency of Israel is a mostly symbolic role(like a less important Queen of Britain), the political power rests with the Prime Minister
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- FullMtlAlcoholc 10y agoJimmy Carter was on his way to becoming a nuclear engineer until his father died and he returned home to take up the familial mantle as a peanut farmer. Ted Lieu, a member of Congress representing a district in Los Angeles, has a BS in Computer Science from Stanford. Slim pickings
- rat87 10y agoI was going to say Rush Holt Jr.(nuclear physicist) but apparently he retired 2 years back
- smogcutter 10y agoWe're about to have a self-made doctor as HUD secretary, let's see how it goes. Politics selects for people who are well suited to politics. Great, that's the cost of doing business in a democracy. For my part, I'll take a scummy politician over SV's platonic philosopher-kings.