Watching the interviews of the bulk American voters is embarassing.
Jay Leno’s Jaywalking stars, Hannity’s voter questionaires, Frank Luntz’s group studies, and many others shed light on how really stupid and uninformed the masses are when it comes to American civics or politics. ;
In fact, hook-up any dictator with an American Idol-star or hot new Hollywood Celebrity Skank and you may have the future POTUS!! They just need to be trained to talk real pretty.
“In fact, hook-up any dictator with an American Idol-star or hot new Hollywood Celebrity Skank and you may have the future POTUS!! They just need to be trained to talk real pretty.”
If all that’s true, and the American people are that ignorant, why does the greatest danger come from overseas? Wouldn’t a domestic despot have just as easy a time of it?
I know what you’ll say. The Founder’s warned us of foreign devils assuming the White House, and they provided against it. They did, it’s true. But there are all sorts of ways around the Constitution. I mean, would it really be all that worse to have the anchor baby of a despot run than the natural born grandson of a despot? Would it be so hard for Osama Bin Laden to impregnate an American woman, wait for that child to reproduce, set up a giant trust-fund for him, then reap the benefits?
The bottom line is the natural born qualification is a catch-all, not an iron-clad guarantee. It alone cannot prevent a despot from assuming power. If we ultimately cannot rely on the electorate to prevent the rise of tyrants, then we simply cannot prevent it.