http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/abolish-the-state-of-the-union-address.html
I don’t see what is so offensive about the President addressing Congress (and the people that are watching on tv) about the state of the union once every year. I have no idea how it could be considered monarchical. I don’t get the problem. Of course, I will certainly disagree with a lot of what Trump will say tonight. But to disagree with the idea of the President addressing Congress and the country about the state of the union every year? I don’t get it. I don’t have a problem with ide of the speech. It is also tradition(since Wilson anyway).
I don’t really care about the monarchal tone of it. I just find that it so pointless. It rarely moves the needle on polling; in fact, the average change of a president’s approval rating before and after at State of the Union is zero. Yep, zero. It’s also the worst of American politics on display: Washington suits jockeying for seats just so that they can have a handshake with the president, how politicians bring in Real People to suit their own message, the canned responses afterwards, the whole media circus around it and the typical media over analyzation, and so many other things that are bad about it. Nobody cares after noon on Wednesday anyway.
I say this, of course, as I will be watching the State of the Union in two hours!