I did realize this was a satirical peace. I've written about this idea of the mystical candidate.
I know this is a satircal article but I am tired of this idea of the mystical candidate. The fact that the only options you have are pure satire shows that at the end of the day, you suffer from derangment syndrome held by every single American voter: that there has to be someone better out there than the choice you have. You don't know who that candidate is, you don't even know if they ever existed, but you prefer them.
I get the reasoning. But I find it moronic., It's based on the concept then anybody who runs for President is somehow wrong for the job because they chose to get into politics. Jimmy Carter, for the record, when he ran for President in 1976 was hated by everybody - the media because he was fuzzy, the liberals because he wasn't liberal enough, Democratic senatrors and representatives because he was an outsider. And for the record, he was deeply unpopular from the moment he became President and only became worshipped AFTER he left office. He wasn't invited to a Democratic convention again until 2004. THAT's how unpopular he was with the populace.
Here's an anecdote by Lincoln, who for the record only won election with forty percent of the vote in 1860 was hated by everybody from the moment he took office, was so unpopular that before his first term ended his own party was trying to replace him, who only won reelection AFTER teh Civil War started to turn, and only then after building a colaition of Republicans and War Democrats. It was only AFTER he was assassinated that he was considered a saint (except in the South where they still hate him) Where was I? Oh yes.
A prominent Republican was upset withow McLellan, the general of the Union armies at the time was running the war efffort. It was a valid complaint, McCellan was a autious general and a weak leader. Lincoln was told he should replace him. "With whom?" he asked. "Anybody would be better." Lincoln who held sentiments about McLellan similar to his guests said: "I can not promote anybody and win. I must have somebody."
That's the thing I bring that bothers every American: it's the idea that the choices we get are unworthy of us and that somehow, somewhere that anybody would be better than the choices you have. Well, you can't win an election with anybody. You must have somebody. And until that miraculous somebody comes up, I have a simple piece of advice.
STOP WHINING.
I am serious about this. I feel your pain about this, I feel it myself. And you have the right to complain about our elected officials. But unless you can give a name - unless you can find this mystical candidate who has the policy of FDR, the good looks of JFK, the charisma of Obama and the humor of Reagan - unless that person actually exists and is somewhere we can find them, then stop pretending that they'll show up.
I honestly think the biggest problem with the electorate is that they are eternally disastified with whoever represents them. Another line: "A statesman is a politician who is dead." That's the only time any elected official is recognized as the great person he is: the moment they leave office. No real person encapsulates perfection and that's true of elected offiicals as it everybody. Hypothetical candidates are the only ones we love. The moment they take office they use their luster. If Michelle Obama were to run for President and win, you'd be as pissed with he rthe day she took office as you were with Joe Biden. Before she did, she was only potential. The moment she took office, she'd been another politician and you'd be saying she only got the job because of her husband.
Forgive me for venting. But I'm exhausted by this line. These unicorns don't exist, they never have and they never will. Stop taking your issues out on people who run for President because they don't meet this smorphous, vague fuzzy feeling you have that somewhere, there has to be someone better. The day you find them, the day they become President, you'll be saying why did we let Biden step down? Guarantee it.