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.
Comment on Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president
Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoIn 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.
blueeggsandyam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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!
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.
wombatula@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The sample size is 2, and both of them were terrible people before they got into politics.
Reagan was an authoritarian bootlicker who helped out communists as the President of SAG, he was already a fascist and was voted in because he was a fascist that was good at public speaking.
Not even gonna get into how shitty of a human being Trump was before being president, except to point out he was the biggest voice accusing Obama of faking his birth certificate.
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.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
All I really remember from The Governators time was how many parks got built.
It was actually kind of ridiculous because the signs went up into all kinds of places I had been using for hiking for years, dirt lots or unmanaged areas that connected to wilderness. Then bam, sign goes up with a big green ✅ and Swartzennegers name. No park at first just the signs. And a shit ton of them. Like a ridiculous number. It took time from there but they were all eventually turned into parks and green spaces.
He gets a lot of shit because he is an over the top character, but California has done far worse. Newsom is worse. Davis did less.
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.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I’m not familiar with “Keynesian economics”. However I do think cutting corners is something that is common with many industries. It isn’t because of profit but is more related to the desire not to go out of business. Competition is normally a good thing as it drives down prices while increasing options for customers. The fix to this is to bad behavior with fines or outright bans.