#The president actually doesn't get much power unless there's a house and senate and wallstreet aligned with the same interests.

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Sick of USA voting discourse. Might have to blacklist Biden/Trump because of the ridiculous takes on the 'ethics'.

America sells guns and war for a living, that is the basket in which they have put all their eggs. The legislative and judiciary branches are designed from the ground up to allow the military industrial complex to lobby, interfere and blackmail for whatever they want.

Voting for a magical unicorn anti-war executive leader won't change those other branches.

Only incremental change, such as allowing citizens the ability to strike without fear of death from illness for example, can sway what America invests in, and divests from.

That means that Americans can *only* vote for internal American interests- for as long as their main export is weapons and destruction.

And if they vote tactically across all three branches, maybe in a decade Raytheon et al won't dictate policy and eat a good portion of their taxes.

If the glorious revolution didn't happen when thousands of people were losing loved ones and going hungry, it's sure not going to happen if this election goes to wackjobs again.

Keep the hope for the local and state elections, keep the semi senile executive leader with a decent FTC appointee that's stopped mega mergers that would have screwed the world.

And please stop with the brain dead ideas that a president actually has power against three branches stacked against peace anywhere. Obama couldn't even close the local blatant war crime that is Guantanamo or reduce the leveling of two countries in 8 years with extensive global pressure.

America is not run by a dozen 'great men' that set the priorities, it's run by tens of thousands of laws protecting tens of thousands of financial interests and what isn't tied up in the war machines is tied up in keeping the populace unable to affect change.

There is hope but it won't come from a president. It'll come from below and produce a dream team *supporting* the senators and congressmen *supporting* a president that won't stink so much to vote for, you might even get to choose between two decent options for the primaries in the next one.