>any Democratic leader would be waaay more forward looking, less out of touch etc etc etc... That's the issue with "would" though, it's an election, and people

>any Democratic leader would be waaay more forward looking, less out of touch etc etc etc... That's the issue with "would" though, it's an election, and people are not automatons. No one's going to go out and vote for the "best person for the job" like some 100% logic driven computer program. That's not really how elections work. People vote for a lot of reasons. (In fact, it's also the case that people don't vote for a lot of reasons.) So it's easily possible for people to vote against the long term interests of the US. Lots of people do, all the time.