The Impact Of The American Presidency On Life

The American president has very little true power within the framework that American politics was intended to run by.  This does not stop liberals and conservatives from pretending like the country will descend into an even worse state a hundredfold if only the candidate of the other party takes power as the president, as if the lives of many Americans have changed beyond comparatively trivial things (even if the president did directly make gas prices rise or fall, even this is trivial compared to the many things candidates of both sides ignore, support, or lie about in order to gain or hold their office).  After all, liberals and conservatives are just slaves to emotionalism with different philosophical orientations, so their idiotic beliefs incite panic, and panic makes them want to cling to and promote their idiotic beliefs all the more.

Members of both major parties tend to be somewhat familiar with this already, albeit selectively, as they keep insisting it is the next election that will actually be catastrophic if people with their own pathetic assumptions or preferences do not take power.  When an election comes and passes and the new president has (in all likelihood) ultimately done very little to nothing of what they even said they would do if voted into office, political irrationalists scramble to emotionally trap people into assumption-based allegiance to their political party before the next cycle arrives.  It is usually the next election and the next president that conservatives and liberals alike will pretend is really the last straw before all hell breaks loose, as if some aspects of America have not been hellacious already since its beginnings as a nation and as if those are ever truly the focus of the most prominent political accomplishments anyway.

The objective flaws with democratic societies and the arbitrariness or inconsistency of historical/current American laws (and their enforcement) aside, almost nothing of foundational or practical significance to everyday life will actually change as one president replaces another.  There might be pockets of people who decide to more boldly act upon their stupidity, greed, or malice one way or another, or at least be more vocal about whatever likely asinine philosophical ideas they hold to, but nothing more than this is likely to change for a great many people.  In truth, this is supposedly what America was supposed to be, as irrational as the democratic functions built in truly are: a country represented by a president who ultimately has their hands tied by the other two branches of the American political system, the legislative and judicial branches, and who is supposed to be appointed by majority vote.

It is not as if only one of the two dominant parties is based on emotionalism, hypocrisy, and assumptions and the other is wholly and intentionally founded on reason.  It is not as if even positive political changes in America as a society are likely to be pursued, implemented, and accepted quickly.  It is not as if democracy could possibly be rational even if these other things were not the case!  A grand truth about the current state of American politics is that a mere change of who has the presidential office neither delivers nor damns the country on its own.  Even a true rationalist could not change much about America if he or she took the presidency apart from having autocratic authority or something very close to it, something that Americans tend to fear and loathe due to emotionalism without ever actually realizing that they will never be entirely free from having imbeciles devastate or stall the country, at least not on purpose, without this.