"I can't Hate Donald Trump"

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by DanaC

The idea of Donald Trump at the head of the world's most powerful fiscal-military machine is fucking terrifying.

It's important to remember, then, that the President of the United States is not the head of very much at all.

(a list of why that is, has been edited out here, for the sanity of the reader)

And no matter who is elected, there is always a tremendous amount of power within the people themselves, which is hard to see sometimes. President Anyone with only 30% support of the people is close to entirely powerless.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's important to remember, then, that the President of the United States is not the head of very much at all.

The entire economy of India is worth $2 trillion. A president with little intelligence and who almost lost his reelection not only did massive damage to the American economy. He even spent almost $3 trillion on a war that had no purpose - to kill hundreds of thousands (and their leader) who were not a threat. And massacred 5000 American servicemen in the process. He had little power to do anything productive. But he clearly did massive damage to America, to its credibility, so so many world wide treaties, to America's respect all over the world, and made it clear to Putin that it is best to not trust America.

America can be so stupid as to elect another George Jr with names such as Cruz or Trump.

For someone without that much power, he still managed to destroy maintenance of most everything in America, construction of new schools, infrastructure, innovations, new markets, and so many other things that made America great. While turning a potential surplus into a massive national debt. Fortunately he had so little power that he did not put Social Security into the stock market. So there were limits to his destruction.