In the past, people elected representatives - that is, not just people who represented their interests in congress but people who shared the same struggles and concerns. You could become president if you were short, or fat, or disabled etc.
Now, we only elect rich people who are 6'2"+, good looking and healthy.
What happened? Is this the fault of TV?
>You could become president if you were short, or fat, or disabled etc.
False. One of the golden rules of leadership is to be, or atleast look, fit. Both 2016 candidates failed this rule actually. Donnie by eating crap and hillary by the incident at the twin towers monument.
All the attention has corrupted his ego. He's a child now. His ego must be stroked several times per day or he throws a temper tantrum.
Yep. Media is responsible for alot of shit.
Wasn't FDR a cripple and Taft morbidly obese
I thought it was because someone corrupted her clone source material. Y'know, like Palpatine in the Dark Empire series.
Sayeth the retard who voted either for the old kike socialist or the megalomaniac criminal cunt, amirite?
"Anyone can be President"
That's a huge myth.
It always took wealth to become President. There were some times that other people used that wealth for the puppet that they wanted, but it was always the rich who had control.
that was a shitty psych profiling, and ur a shitty human being
Lots of factors, but it can be summarily explained like this.
Politics in the United States stopped being about interests, struggles and concerns decades ago. The last representative president we had was arguably Kennedy, or Eisenhower, depending on which way you lean. Ever since then, slowly but surely, politics here began to be more about perception, and theatrics. With each passing president things got a little further away from reason and discourse.
Johnson escalating the Vietnam War, Nixon's crackdown on political activists through the drug war, Ford pardoning Nixon (which is a rare example of theatrics working against an administration), Carter trying to cut porkbarrel spending, pretty much all of regans policies, H.W. Bush's "no new taxes"(oh sweet irony), Clinton's Monica Lewinsky trial, Bush's patriot act to fight terrorism, Obama's persecution of middle America to appease his base; and finally a president that openly and routinely lies, contradicts himself, and once the healthcare bill passes will be responsible for the deaths of a quarter million Americans by 2026. A crime against humanity by any other name.
But no one will care, because the public perceives the president to be honest. Who you are is now more important than what you say. The age of reason is dead.
Our country is relatively problem free.
funny how libs do this, seeing as how the only ones who actually live around nogs are the southerners.
Party bosses decided who got to run until the 50-60s.
its one of those 'is but isnt' paradoxes...
ppl in the US like to donate money so its technically true that anybody can b a pres, but that wouldnt make u rich, unless ur an asshole and pocket it
i fucking love when people buy the kennedy (((man of the people))) narrative
>You could become president if you were short, or fat, or disabled etc.
That's a bit disingenuous, those were always exceptions, not the rule.
You're not entirely wrong though, the tl;dr is televison.
The only president who represented the people and was born with nothing was Nixon, and ((They)) shut him down
>Now, we only elect rich people
Look at every single president of the united states and you will see that all of them were wealthy or affluent before becoming president.
>What happened? Is this the fault of TV?
Yes. The last bald president was Eisenhower and the first televised presidential debates were between Nixon and Kennedy.
You literally cannot be president and also be bald in America.
This right here is exactly what I'm talking about. Who cares that the man was going to end segregation and the cold war, his daddy had booze money.
People like you are the result of a half century decline in critical thought.
yeah but they weren't broadcasted 24/7. also standards change.
>going to end segregation
Good thing he got no scoped, I guess it didn't make a difference anyway though.