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This was apparently tweeted by (semi-famous?) Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle. The person who posted it on FB thought he was just some dude and felt the need to redact his name.

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That is exactly the kind of politician every country needs; one who says "Fuck everything; I'm going to fix this country whether anyone likes it or not." And if he did that in three years, there's no reason any president can't do that in 4 to 8. Yes, Congress gets in the way, but why would you run the entire country into the ground just because you can use that as an excuse?

You don't need it too often, it was pretty destabilising and it came at the end of decades of one party rule. I wouldn't want to see it happen now personally, I was more saying that it can happen.

It doesn't need to happen every other election, but no one needs two decades of waiting through bullshit to finally see change, either.

In America, I don't know if I was alive the last time we had a president radical enough to drastically change the way the system works for the better; it's been getting steadily worse since Clinton got out of office, and we're approaching 14 years.

Yes, I definitely think it's time for someone to come in and reign in executive privilege and the military industrial complex. I actually think social issues are progressing OK there by and large. Abortion is going backwards, but that's because that's what people want more so than structural inertia in the political system.

I'm not so sure about how social issues are progressing. The drug war is still running, and that's a big problem for a lot of minorities. Gerrymandering and redistricting is still silencing a lot of minority voters. Gay rights have taken YEARS to achieve, and haven't been set in stone, so one term of conservative rule and that will be lost easily. And, as you said, abortion is already moving backwards. Add in the two problems you stated and we're in a hell of a bind as a country.

I don't think we've had a President who was both effective and not-evil since Eisenhower.

I don't any of the presidents other than Clinton (who I'm too young to remember), Bush, and Obama. If I'm not mistaken, Eisenhower was the president during WW2? I have no idea anything he did or stood for, though, sadly.

Eisenhower was a WWII General, commander of all allied forces in Europe. He was President for most of the 1950s, when the top marginal income tax rate was above 90%. He foresaw the rise of the military-industrial complex and coined the term to warn us about it. I recommend reading his "Cross of Iron" (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9743.htm) speech. No politician in our lifetimes has been such a powerful speaker.

They're out there. They're just unelectable because the media says so.

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