(February 28, 2016 at 7:02 pm)IATIA Wrote: I believe the Presidency to be the least important branch. Congress is where the efforts should be focused. Trump cannot do much damage without the backing of Congress and the Supreme Court. And congress can do just as much damage as they have in the past, regardless of the President.
Trump would break the train of lawyers and politicians and in the long run, it might be a good thing. American politics was never intended to be a career choice, but rather a representation of the people.
You have a point. Personally, I'm looking at SCOTUS appointments. If Democrats win the POTUS election this November, that battle will be over. We'll have the the SCOTUS won for decades.
Another of my big things is foreign policy. I'm a little conservative here, concerned about keeping America strong. But Shrub LIED about intelligence data to get us into the needless invasion of Iraq. That cost of north of a TRILLION dollars and made the world MORE dangerous. It was one of the stupidest moves of any American Presidents of all time. I thought I'd never live to see anything stupider than Jimmy Carter allowing Fidel Castro to ship Cuba's worst prisoners to Miami but Shrub's idiotic invasion of Iraq probably beats it.
The bottom line is that the President has a lot of power - enough to fuck things up for generations in just one term.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
