The Presidency 2020
As the political candidates for the Presidency accumulate, you may ask yourself a very interesting question. “Who is best placed to win?”
But since these popularity contests don’t seem to be working very well, let’s ask a slightly different question. “Who would be the ideal candidate?”
Here’s how you answer that question. Don’t listen to any of the campaign speeches or rhetoric. Just vote for the candidate who puts the national debt/deficit and the need for a balanced budget amendment as his or her top priority.
Plot spoiler: None will do that!
Who is best placed to win? Trump has the advantage of incumbency but the Democrat nominee will have more constituents.
The ideal candidate depends on one’s ideals. A growing majority idealize more taxpayer funded benefits for themselves and more taxes on successful people. For an ignored minority the national debt and deficit are most important.
I think the most important issue is improved strategic defense. Trump spent a couple of sentences on this issue in his 85 minute 2019 State of the Union speech.
I believe that the second most important issue is the size and reach of the welfare state; deficits, debt and unfunded liabilities are the results of an expanding entitlement regime. Neither Trump nor the Democrat response mentioned this. According to my ideals, all subsidies would be abolished without raising taxes; government would shrink. This is an ignored minority opinion.
My ideal candidate believes what I believe and can win. It seems that those two criteria are contradictory. What will happen first–social and economic collapse or nuclear annihilation? My ideal president, representative, senators make both less likely. I vote for the viable candidate who does the least amount of damage.
Here is a quote from writer Kevin Williamson, “Howard Schultz already knows that he cannot run in his own party, even though Senator Sanders — who is not a member of the Democratic party — can.” The rest of the article is https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/02/25/a-syllabus-of-errors/
As a member of the Reform Party, WinLoseorDraw believes in extreme fiscal conservatism (in order to save the country from itself), and moderately progressive (for lack of a better word) social programs.
The two goals do not have to be mutually exclusive, Ian; but WinLoseorDraw agrees with the author of the article you supplied that so called “Social Democrats” seem to be unaware of the Bottom Line.
Unfortunately, nobody in the political realm is attacking the biggest problem America faces. We need to cut spending and pass a viable Balanced Budget Amendment.
I think Schultz could win.
He’s not flat on the high notes, so I suppose he could find himself in contention. However, an Independent faces opposition/collusion from both the Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans may actually try to find covert ways to support him as long as he remains a long shot.