What Do You Want?

[tcepsa]

It seems like every election--especially recent ones--many if not most people feel they are being offered two bad options and their criteria for picking who they vote for are centered around which one of them they feel would be less awful as President.

This has aroused my curiosity.

What characteristics do you want the President to have? What skills do you think are necessary to do a good job in the White House? What experience do you think is necessary to qualify a person to lead this nation? What issues must the President be focused on, and what must their stance be on each? What are things that they must not have/say/do/believe?

Is it even possible for such a person to exist, or are we going to be stuck with making the best of bad choices from here on out? Has it ever been anything but that? Can it ever be anything but that?

[Edit: Fixed grammar, added "not" question]

Comments

[arashinomoui.livejournal.com]

I'd love to believe that people are fundamentally good, that if given the freedom to choose they will choose the right thing. Instead, I've seen that absence of regulation people will choose the short-term, selfish, most for me & screw you option.

Communism works, in theory. Libertarianism works, in theory. Both fail because the mass of humanity is greedy, short-sighted, and stupid/ignorant and as studies (who's unbiased nature one may question) have shown, the general populace has proven itself to prefer to remain low information.

So ideally, I agree with you. That being said with the world as it is? If it's a choice between my way or his way, I want my way.