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Trump may have doomed us to an endless flood of celebrity politicians. I despise Zuckerberg but other celebrity candidates scare me more. If we must have a te
by eb00 9y ago
Trump may have doomed us to an endless flood of celebrity politicians. I despise Zuckerberg but other celebrity candidates scare me more. If we must have a tech mogul I would prefer Gates or Cook.
- fiblye 9y agoOther celebrity presidents would merely be dumb. Society has managed to survive bumbling politicians, mocking them all along the way. Zuckerberg strikes me as hell-bent on global domination, but doing it with the most plastic smile possible. Given any sort of real authority, I doubt even humor at his expense would go unchecked.
- Caveman_Coder 9y ago> "Trump may have doomed us to an endless flood of celebrity politicians..." We've had numerous celebrity politicians before Trump. Franken, Reagan, Arnold, Ventura, Springer, etc... The list continues[1] and it definitely wasn't Trump that was the first (although he holds the highest position of any of the other celebrity-actor-politicians, without having first held another political position). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actor-politicians#USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actor-politicians#USA EDIT: Clarified my comment on Trump being the "first" celebrity-president
- pitt1980 9y agofwiw, Springer's political life was before he became a nationally known celebrity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Springer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Springer
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoReagan was president too though.
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoFair point. I edited my comment to make clear that I meant first celebrity-president without having had any other political position.
- romanovcode 9y agoGates would actually be pretty good IMO.
- marindez 9y agoGates as a candidate would work as well as McAfee