The only optimism I can point to is the strength of the American system of government. If we could survive Warren Gameliel Harding, not the most corrupt but probably the most incompetent (yes, even with Jimmy Carter as competition) -- if we could survive Harding, we will survive the winner of this election.
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You raise an interesting point. There are at least five people, most of them widely read and experienced engineers, right here on FreeRepublic who would be a better President than any of the three surviving candidates.
The only optimism I can point to is the strength of the American system of government. If we could survive Warren Gameliel Harding, not the most corrupt but probably the most incompetent (yes, even with Jimmy Carter as competition) -- if we could survive Harding, we will survive the winner of this election.
According to Adam Smith, "there is a lot of ruin in a country." But if it's all the same to you, I'd rather pass on that experiment.And given that the only two engineers I know of who became president (not counting any who might have been military engineers before becoming generals) were Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter, I am tempted to pass on that, too - even if I have a degree in mechanical engineering myself.