Do We Need a President?

Yesterday I received an email from a good friend who was lamenting the fact that it looked like the 2024 election would be between Trump and Joe.

He asked, “Can’t our political system do any better than producing those two old, ineffective and stupid guys?”

So, I started thinking about what my friend said and have actually come up with a rather different and perhaps novel point of view, which is this: What difference does it make who we elect as President of the United States?

And I am asking that question in all seriousness. Because I’m beginning to be convinced that the whole idea of whether the guy/gal who sits behind the Resolute desk is qualified to be sitting there, is an idea that is completely overblown.

Think about this: From 2017 through 2020 we had a President who spent about three hours a day doing nothing other than watching TV, shooting the shit with a drunken, so-called ‘personal’ attorney, and giving a completely untutored son-in-law total and complete authority to run the executive branch.

How could anyone be so stupid as to send Rudy Giuliani all the way to Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe and his son? How could anyone have been so stupid as to get on a telephone call which was being listened to by God knows how many people and tell the head of another country that he would trade him…