Can't is right. I learned this from watching Netflix's The Crown when it started…the idea that a job/position has its own agenda, regardless of what the person holding it wants. Does anyone really think @BarackObama wanted to do all the things he had to do in his tenure? 1/
https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/1328905381549125632
The USA became the world's leading oil producer during his time…did he want that *personally* or was it something the job of POTUS needed to see happen, for the economic strength of the country? A center-right country is not changing course for a temporary change of captains. 2/
The bumper sticker "if the people lead, the leaders will follow" is more accurate than many think: if we want real change it has to come from the bottom, from the voters, putting the right people in office, from city hall to the fed'l gov't. 3/
But when 71M people vote for 1956 — or earlier — as a platform, we plainly have a lot of work to do. The current use of money as speech is one of the first things to fix. Then we can have a government that can do what it needs to. 4/F
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