Comment on Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president
sab@kbin.social 11 months agoI 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 11 months ago
Reagan was also Governor of California before he became president.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 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.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 months ago
I actually think he'd do a great job. I just don't think it's likely to happen due to the constitutional requirements, which would never be changed in a normal political environment, much less in this one.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Let’s remember that a lot of people think of Trump doing a great job.
Never again.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean he was kinda milquetoast, but also, California is like, fucking impossible to manage. I don’t think people realize how strange and departed interests are in Sacramento. It’s a clusterfuck because California is so variable in its territory, people, and ideologies.