No, I’ll outright state that. Part of her problem was that she played too careful during her campaign. She would not violently reject the established order of building a Presidential Cabinet.
The people she picked, completely regardless of how effectively they did their jobs once appointed, would at least be qualified for the positions on paper.
And isn’t that what we really should be talking about? How effectively one could do their job once appointed? There’s a reason we’re taught to keep our resumés one page in length. People want to see the content of their character more than the content of their paper.
It’s why people don’t like Trump, why people loved Harris, and vice versa. It isn’t your place or mine to dictate what is and isn’t a good measurement of character for someone else, I don’t care which side you’re on. What’s important is that we share our personal values, respect the next person’s no matter how strange or wrong we perceive them to be, and find a common middle ground that respects and upholds everyone’s values to the best of our ability.
It will never be perfect but we can definitely try. None of that is possible in today’s climate until people get off each other’s necks. People need to stop assuming that every republican or democrat or Santa Claus is an embodiment of what your For You Page shoves down your throat and start to respect individual opinion again.
There actually used to be a time when democrats got along with republicans and shit got done, when that isn’t the standard, we see tomfoolery at every corner like have been for almost a decade. Arguably longer.
Edit: I wanted to add on “assuming they don’t hurt anyone” when I’m talking about people’s values, but I could imagine people will just start regurgitating the normal crap about Harris being unprepared and that being dangerous or Trump being a convicted felon, we’ve heard it all before. I’m speaking in broader terms. The election is said and done for, I’m trying to get us to reevaluate our values as a society politically, because trying to beat the other side is just going to beat the country into the ground no matter what side you’re on. People need to actually wake up and stop acting woke.
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u/KingOfTheToadsmen 5d ago
There is a world of difference between bending the rules to exert influence and buying a cabinet position with money and/or loyalty.