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I really wonder what would happen if, say, Taylor Swift or MrBeast actually ran for president.
Who could compete with that? You can say the parties would try to oust them, but look how that worked out for Trump, and he had far less name recognition back then.
I would love to think that people wouldn’t just vote based on who they recognize most from TV but here we are
Well, that already happened for Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
At least one of those two was actually competent at his job.
Schwarzi?
He actually did a lot to reduce gerrymandering practices in California
As a Republican? That's surprising. Although Cali mostly swings democrat, so it might have even been beneficial for R.
He was an old-school republican and honestly pretty liberal overall. He’s still far from MAGA as far as I know.
He's actively anti-MAGA. Dude knows first-hand what fascism does to people.
He’s actually on the very short list of “republicans I actually kinda respect somewhat” - Adam kinzinger and Liz Cheney too, largely because they very clearly do not like fascists, even if I strongly disagree with a TON of their politics.
Jesse Ventura
Ilona Staller
the advtage they have is that they wouldnt be able to be easily be influenced by money, because well, they have a lot already. it would probably be the main reason why neither poltical party would want them to run, because they wouldnt be able to be controlled as easily. a lot of powerful people would not want a populist to gain control.
Rich people are counterintuitively more susceptible to bribery.
They're more susceptible to money, that's how they got rich
You would think that, but there is never “enough” money for the wealthy.
More likely though, they would just pass the reigns after a day or a week or something. Being a President is exhausting, your daily schedule is constantly meeting and travelling nearly all the time. Even the presidents who would go golfing and the like were signing off on stuff and answering urgent phone calls.
The problem is that the very wealthy have either gained that through the exploitation of others or born into it. And neither create a healthy mindset as for how the general population should be treated.
We’re long overdue for a new reform party to run on few or single issue platforms, eg. to end FPTP and institute national ranked choice or star voting. They’d certainly be immune from corporate bribe money trying to drop these policies.
If they ran as independents to do just that, they’d have my vote. And it’s crazy enough it just might work.
It would be typical murica.. that's for sure.