History suggests you would want a very competent head of security, because some rich nepo babies wouldn't like what you were doing.
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But would it lower prices to the extreme for the middle class and poor?
No, because the sabotage of the last decade will take at least half a century to repair.
Other countries have already started to figure out how to depend less on the US. It’s that dependency that was artificially lowering prices in the past.
If you learn how to jiggle the keys to power, and jiggle them masterfully in a way previously unseen in history, essentially being the ultimate and most eponymously mythical of benevolent dictators...
Yea, it would. Until you die.
Then we're back to the same paradigm. Because it's the whole system itself that is a hodgepodge of both human nature and direct perversions thereof, and not inherently its outputs.
What Reagan reserves? If there were any reserves from the Reagan era, which I doubt, because he doubled the deficit from $79 billion to $152 billion, they're long gone by now.
I've often asked myself the same thing. I've actually got a website up where I sort of throw it out there that I'd like to run. It's probably not realistic that a random person who's not versed in politics nor wealthy from the get go, but I'm really fucking such of feeling powerless against those with millions- billions of wealth that they use to influence everything else everywhere while 99%everywhere else struggle.
I've even searched for party and alternative groups to see what or who could ever offer real momentum against the 2 party system!
I have little knowledge and a lot of motivation/conviction, but a healthy fear if anyone ever posed a real enough threat to those in power, that threat would "fall out a window" or kill themselves, or something else random.
I've started volunteering with Forward party which feels like a catch-all for 2 party abandoners, independents, and anyone else looking for logic over emotion.
Respect
We are heavily dependent on oil in the US. In most places, if you do not have a car, you are severely limited on job prospects and other necessary things to live. Nothing gets cheaper, we pay for it in one way or another. For prices to come down, it would require good faith actors, who do not have fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit and have unlimited growth. And in this economic system, bad faith is the stock and trade. This is why you never hear of growth-flation. Prices go up, quantities and sizes go down, and if we don’t like it, we are shit out of luck.
The president doesn’t have the power to do this own their own. It would take a ton of people working towards a common goal of a better society. And for most people, if it doesn’t make them money, they don’t care to try.
Wars have been started, heads of state have been kidnapped, millions have died, just for oil. Add to that that you are also attempting to reign in the military? You would be turning off the spigot for the most depraved people in the world. They’d make an example of you, for those that would try such a thing again. They would not even cover it up.
The President of the United States isn't its absolute ruler; they are the head of the executive branch, i.e. the branch that (clue is in the name) executes the laws passed by the legislative branch (Congress), and then only on the federal level. For example the budget is passed by Congress…
Questions like this remind me of this TV series that I watched a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(2015_TV_series)
That portrays very well what might actually happen if a random "ordinary person" with no political experience were elected president of a country, and what challenges they would face.
portrays very well what might actually happen if a random “ordinary person” with no political experience were elected president of a country, and what challenges they would face.
Uh, isn't that scenario playing out in real time in the US.
Trump is hardly an ordinary person, he was a public figure long before becoming president. In the TV series, it's literally a random history teacher.
Is it in English?
It is in Ukrainian, which is a language I do not understand. I watched it subtitled to my first language (German), but AFAIK there are also subtitles in English. Not sure where, nor whether there may even be a dub, you will have to look for that yourself.