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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
While social pressures may be strong, they are never so strong that we become slaves to societal pressure. If we do, it's our own fault.
Good, then we agree.
. Sorry about the out of context thing. Quote
Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
The fact of the matter is that becoming President of the USA has much more to do with public perception (manufactured or otherwise) and one's connections within the political machine (not what you know but who you know). There are those who argue that you could have nominated a trained monkey as GOP and the race would have turned out the same.
You're assuming that the majority of americans are complete idiots who are totally swayed by the media. Even if something tlike that happened it means that the people backing the president are complete political geniuses to pull it off. So if a stupid president was elected, he would have good advisors to back him up.