| Here is one of my opinons about this question.
By picking a numskull for President we can have someone to blame for all our personal problems, we might wait until their term in office is past the honeymoon stage, but the fact is we want an escape goat to blame for our woes and so we pick someone who will mess things up so we do not need to be responsable for how screwed up our own life has become, or how we relate to stuff like bumper to bumper traffic.
If we voted in a really super smart person along with really intelligent people to fill the seats in congress (which is what the forefathers expected us to do) then thing would go right and that would force us to see that something might be wrong with us personally.
We would rather wake up and read the newspaper and play god by judging the "worse wrongs" of the world then to wake up and "look at our self and how we can improve our own shortcomings".
So we elect leaders who can provide us with that distraction. |