11-15-2016, 09:09 PM
(11-15-2016, 07:03 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Yeah, but they don't actually have a vote. The number one problem, far and away, is that career policiticans vote almost exclusively for the best chance to be re-elected, not the best choice.
Until you fix that you're not changing anything just moving the deck chairs around.
(11-15-2016, 04:59 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: That's highly unlikely to happen. Everyone says they're going to do change this or that with respect to foreign policy, but in the words of Obama "it's different once you actually sit in the chair". Which is to say career staffers have, and will continue, to dictate foreign policy. They all have their ideas, but then they take office and get a real education on the issues.
Trump, like any other POTUS, could choose to ignore that (although there are still plenty of checks & balances). But there's no real evidence to believe he'll be any different. As a businessman, he's certainly not inexperienced with making decisions on the basis of staffer recommendations.
Clearly unexperience politicians with term limits will solve the problem except when career staffers are involved. And career staffers who would be involved in everything.
