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Showing Original Post only (View all)Presidents should be questioned and confronted, not idolized [View all]
Folks, they're not running women's shelters or abused animal havens. They're presidents.
And what sort of person is allowed to be president?
The sort who, at some point in their lives, decided that it'd be groovy to be top dog in what is currently the world's only empire. Sure, some are less hideous than others, but all of them possess the peculiar quality of being able to order people to be murdered, even entire cities and/or nations bombarded, before shuffling off to bed. As commander-in-chief, they wield the power of life and death. And they like it.
From my perspective, there's something a bit off-kilter about these individuals (recall that even "saintly" Jimmy Carter wasn't above throwing a bit of money to a right-wing Latin American outfit, or stirring up trouble in Afghanistan). On occasion, we might get a Lincoln or FDR, but even those titans had to be pushed into doing the right thing.
Let's not confuse the Caesars with the Christs. Certainly, let us not hesitate to give our emperors holy hell when the occasion calls for it. After all, how protective should we be towards those who control a nuclear arsenal?