>tfw we will never have another president like Lincoln, FDR, Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Truman, Wilson, Jackson, or Eisenhower
>tfw you realize the last TEN presidents have not come anywhere close to any of these guys
>>316720
Heard you talkin shit like I wouldn't find out.
>>316720
You sure about that?
>>316758
lmao yeah i think so
I didn't want to make a new thread for this, so I'm posting it here because it's tangentially related.
I think an often overlooked issue in any election is the effect of mass media on the democratic process. Especially when the largest organs are consolidated into the hands of a small circle of individuals. How much can the public opinions be molded and their perceptions shaped by a concerted media campaign? How much sway does a network executive have in an election by using his position to support a candidate congenial to his interests, or oppose an unfriendly one?
Does a concentration of media property subvert the democratic process?
I'm not sure why some people think people of the past were any better than modern people.
>>316797
>Does a concentration of media property subvert the democratic process?
Of course. It's happening right now.
The media is left biased and so are our places of learning and other areas that educate our youth, effectively brainwashing our future generations.
>>316720
>not liking the work of Carter
>not supporting deregulation
>not supporting pacifist foreign policies which help stop the wasteful spending of the Nazi-tier levels of public spending on the military
Carter was the real father of the free-market, fuck the reagenniggers
>>316758
this
>>316720
>FDR was good
This fuckin' meme.
>>317050
>elect an honest-to-god small government conservative who doesn't believe in any sort of interference
>economy goes prompt critical and doesn't recover
>elect one of those blue blood New England liberals that has no idea how the real world works
>economy recovers, win a massive and become the world's most powerful country
>>316720
>Hating on based Space President