“In [the United States of] America, any citizen can become president”.
So long as they are natural born, 35 years of age and can convince enough schmucks to vote for them, yeah. Of course, the demonstration of that being true is that we got Trump, a lifetime grifter with no political experience.
On the upside, he proves one of my go to sayings true: “There are two kinds of people I don’t trust, salesmen and politicians. And politicians are just salesmen selling that they should be in charge.”
Except that, in my several decades, literally no one ever said that. if someone did say that, they’re ignorant or selling something.
Well I was raised in a world where at least a few public school teachers and grownups said, inter alia, that:
So long as they are natural born, 35 years of age and can convince enough schmucks to vote for them, yeah. Of course, the demonstration of that being true is that we got Trump, a lifetime grifter with no political experience.
On the upside, he proves one of my go to sayings true: “There are two kinds of people I don’t trust, salesmen and politicians. And politicians are just salesmen selling that they should be in charge.”
People said that about Obama, in fact it was a large part of his appeal. Kamala as well. Trump dynasty… Not so much