Also, no more septuagenarians.
Comment on Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president
pensa@kbin.social 8 months ago
No more celebrities.
Comment on Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president
pensa@kbin.social 8 months ago
No more celebrities.
Also, no more septuagenarians.
Celebtuagenarians
Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
In fairness, Arnold Schwarzenegger already has political experience as governor of California. He’d be the most qualified celebrity for the Whitehouse if he was a naturally born citizen.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Reagan was an actor, and he was instrumental in the process of fucking up our society to the degree that it is now. He spearheaded deregulation. One of the direct outcomes of that is the rampant increase of wealth inequality, as well as the now-“normal” boom/bust economic economic cycle that started with Black Monday in 1987 and has been getting markedly worse with each crash.
Treczoks@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That was not because he was an actor. That was because Reagan was stupid enough to listen to the wrong people.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 months ago
OP’s point is that there is a correlation between celebrity presidents and terrible decisions affecting the nation.
sab@kbin.social 8 months ago
I think the point is that Schwarzenegger, unlike Reagan, has political experience. He has proven himself not to be as much as a puppet as Reagan was, at least.
That said, good thing he can't run.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 8 months ago
Reagan was also Governor of California before he became president.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I don’t think you understand economics. The economy naturally booms and crashes since the dawn of time.
The key is to slow down the boom and speed up the crash so we don’t end up with the economy totally crashing
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I am familiar with Keynesian economics. I am not suggesting that regulations fully prevent crashes, either then or now.
What I am saying is that removing the guardrails so you can cut corners even more aggressively in the interest of profit works great until you crash in a way that the guardrails would have made the crash suck a lot less.
blueeggsandyam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Except that was the same thing that gave us Reagan. He was an actor. Then governor of California. Then president. We are still paying for all his bullshit.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The most qualified doesn’t mean the best qualified, though.
Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Can’t disagree with that!