The U.S. democracy has failed to elect good Presidents since Bill Clinton. It is probably that it isn't capable of electing quality leaders to the highest political office in the media-corporatist-globalist era political party environment. Even at the primary level a bevy of bad politicians step forward without competence in more than one or two of several critical areas of qualification meeting the challenges facing the nation.
Theoretically one could find a candidate able to do the job of President of the United States well. Each major political party could hire professional executive search firms to find a 1000 potentially qualified competent people and with review the Party could field a dozen good candidates apiece for the voters to sort through. As it is the locally swell politicians best suited for glad handing, obligation making and fund raising who enuciates platitudes and partisan rhetoric best eventually gets the nod. Voters face a choice like that familiar to television viewers where there are a hundred stations with nothing on.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/failed-candidate-kingmaker-romney-seeks-next-gop-star-n131421
The nation has pressing issues that a few intelligent think tanks might determine though some intellectually inclined citizens are well aware of what they are. The global environment is in decay, the nation is flooded by illegal aliens in an over-populated world, jobs and wealth are being outsourced, economics and capitalism need reform to fit in the resource limited world, democracy needs to be rescued from concentrated wealth and power etc. Just the one field of environmental economics is beyond the competence of all candidates for the Presidential office that have ever run except Ralph Nadir, then the problem of philosophically understanding history, economics and society well enough to make accurate political leadership changes arise. A politician must be able not only to comprehend what changes need to be done he or she also must be able to get those changes through Congress.
Obviously there is no way either major political party will change their way of doing business, of cutting taxes on the rich, of reinforcing the concentration of wealth through incestuous networking of business ownership by the 1% or of sharing the propaganda whirlpool bath of broadcast media propaganda institutionally. Americans will find the bad choices and be told to like it with a zillion polls indicating their acquiescence or not for the government. Americans can always take out the flag to wave and know everything is right as their power to intelligently elect good Presidents is lost.
Theoretically one could find a candidate able to do the job of President of the United States well. Each major political party could hire professional executive search firms to find a 1000 potentially qualified competent people and with review the Party could field a dozen good candidates apiece for the voters to sort through. As it is the locally swell politicians best suited for glad handing, obligation making and fund raising who enuciates platitudes and partisan rhetoric best eventually gets the nod. Voters face a choice like that familiar to television viewers where there are a hundred stations with nothing on.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/failed-candidate-kingmaker-romney-seeks-next-gop-star-n131421
The nation has pressing issues that a few intelligent think tanks might determine though some intellectually inclined citizens are well aware of what they are. The global environment is in decay, the nation is flooded by illegal aliens in an over-populated world, jobs and wealth are being outsourced, economics and capitalism need reform to fit in the resource limited world, democracy needs to be rescued from concentrated wealth and power etc. Just the one field of environmental economics is beyond the competence of all candidates for the Presidential office that have ever run except Ralph Nadir, then the problem of philosophically understanding history, economics and society well enough to make accurate political leadership changes arise. A politician must be able not only to comprehend what changes need to be done he or she also must be able to get those changes through Congress.
Obviously there is no way either major political party will change their way of doing business, of cutting taxes on the rich, of reinforcing the concentration of wealth through incestuous networking of business ownership by the 1% or of sharing the propaganda whirlpool bath of broadcast media propaganda institutionally. Americans will find the bad choices and be told to like it with a zillion polls indicating their acquiescence or not for the government. Americans can always take out the flag to wave and know everything is right as their power to intelligently elect good Presidents is lost.
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