I am an American, a patriot, a follower of Jefferson and King. I am neither a partisan or an opponent of any of the Democrats, but I am scared to thr pit oif my soul by Trump.
I am pissed at the way political campaign work. I do not care about Lyndon Johnson scratching his balls, MLK’s affairs, Kobuchar’s harsh words to a secretary, Buttigieg’s work for a bank, Gary Hart and the model, Kennedy and Marylin, Jefferson’s mistress, etc etc.
I do not care of Bloomberg wins because he ahs the money to use the media. I only wnat to know if her is competent. I admire Warren, Kobuchar, Biden, because I konow they are competent. I do not want to find out the hard way that Bloomberg and Steyer lack the ability to run the Democratic Party.
I DO care about whether Sanders is at high risk for another MI, I do care if he has a terrible record working with congress and employs bad folks to run his campaign or will be called a communist because he still talks like one.
I also do not want Sanders, a heroic figure and worthy voice in the Senate, to F up because he is ore an idealogue then an Obam like person who can run a government,.
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In the American Civil War there was a tendency for generals to rise to a level of incompetence. IE as a one star or two star they were good r even great. They did great things and became a two or three star and well sucked. Tis was more pronounced on the union side, but the union had the more difficult task.
You really do not know what you got in any of these candidates until they take the oath of President, Meanwhile there is already a fella in the white house, and the power of incumbency is pretty powerful.
I find it amazing that so many people actually want to run for President. The office is not that powerful, and is a thankless task, and to do it well you have to be willing to piss everyone off, risk assassination, impeachment, either eschew a second term and being a lame duck, run for a second term where you are a lame duck,ect. One should wonder if any or all of these folks running are sane, power mongers, or psychopaths.
In the end the Greek method of choosing the President by lot may give us more competent and capable individuals in the office or in congress. Or do we want that?