Why would it matter if the office is respected or not. At this point people should have nothing but horror and absolute disgust for the office and the power it holds.
By that logic, the last respected person in the office started or continued military conflicts in 7 countries, which led to civil wars, genocide in two of those nations, and the rise of slavery in another. Not to mention the killing of thousands of innocent civilians through drone strikes, the execution of American citizens without trial, and a spying program on all Americans without warrants that was lied about and only exposed by a man who can't return to the country.
And the respected person before him started a war on a lie and another without a plan or understanding of the actual objective that we are still fighting.
And before that more of the same and before that more of the same and before that we supported the very rebel groups that became the terrorists that would later attack us and before that....
The power and cult of the presidency is absolutely horrifying yet we continue to give it more and more power just because at least this time its our guy in charge.
To think we were fighting over a couple hundred million dollars or so in the 90s, were disgusted by the trillion and then few trillion dollar budgets of the past governments and had little objection and even pushed for higher than the 6 trillion dollars in spending from the guy we didn't even respected. And now the 11 trillion dollars in spending from the new guy is fine because he's respectable again.
Kind, strong words and hollow speeches should mean nothing when the actions that follow lead to more war and deficit spending that will only lead to future generations having to pay for the borrowed good times of the past and present.
By that logic, the last respected person in the office started or continued military conflicts in 7 countries, which led to civil wars, genocide in two of those nations, and the rise of slavery in another. Not to mention the killing of thousands of innocent civilians through drone strikes, the execution of American citizens without trial, and a spying program on all Americans without warrants that was lied about and only exposed by a man who can't return to the country.
And the respected person before him started a war on a lie and another without a plan or understanding of the actual objective that we are still fighting.
And before that more of the same and before that more of the same and before that we supported the very rebel groups that became the terrorists that would later attack us and before that....
The power and cult of the presidency is absolutely horrifying yet we continue to give it more and more power just because at least this time its our guy in charge.
To think we were fighting over a couple hundred million dollars or so in the 90s, were disgusted by the trillion and then few trillion dollar budgets of the past governments and had little objection and even pushed for higher than the 6 trillion dollars in spending from the guy we didn't even respected. And now the 11 trillion dollars in spending from the new guy is fine because he's respectable again.
Kind, strong words and hollow speeches should mean nothing when the actions that follow lead to more war and deficit spending that will only lead to future generations having to pay for the borrowed good times of the past and present.