Game Changer! - Page 22

Make a conclusion bee, it will be revealing. Still no suggestion they emerged from a saviour complex...or acting school.

@Hund... "Trapped..." How so? Nixon was a paranoid. I don't see that as a Trump trait.

@vk4 ... lol, why do I now smell a trap? I think I'll see if I can avoid those. 

Incomplete list of US celebrity politicians, arguably small percentage of all politicians but compared to any other country its is off the scale.

The list you claim as "off the scale" includes both successful political attempts and unsuccessful ones by "celebrity" or actor politicians. Surprisingly, I discovered, the USA does have a rather early history of acceptance for such candidates for public office. I certainly did finally learn why the I 95 was renamed the John Davis Lodge Turnpike in CT. Apparently, his mother was an actress and his education was Ivy League, Harvard Law to be precise. Clearly, we do not equate brain deficiency with acting ability, and good looks have always been an advantage in any career. 

This too, is historically interesting — the career of Shirley Temple Black, who had the added complication of being a woman tied up in an uphill battle of public perception that she would always be seen as a six year old child.

When she ran for the special election for California’s 11thCongressional District, she tried to downplay her Hollywood past.

"We have 434 members of Congress and not one is from motion pictures. I am very proud of the movie industry... the industry was good for me and I think I was good for it. But not all actors should be in politics and not all haberdashers should be president," she said at the press conference announcing her candidacy. Rather she emphasized her prospective as a woman. 

"I think men are fine and here to stay, but I have a hunch that it wouldn’t hurt to have a woman’s viewpoint expressed in the delegation of 38 men – especially since there are 10 million women in California," she said, running as a Republican-Independent who was pro-abortion rights.  

 http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/02/11/shirley-temple-blacks-journey-from-child-star-to-public-servant

If one spends more quality time with the list, and sticks with the successful candidates, they will always have some other qualities that appeal to the public in addition to those qualities that propelled them to success on the silver screen, notably strong educations and/or a keen desire for public service. There were comparable numbers of Dems and Reps, as well. MY conclusion is, in the USA we happen to have some pretty smart and educated people who are also actors. India also had a rather long list of actor politicians, and stereotypically, theirs is a country with much emphasis on education and film culture of Bollywood. I see some parallels! Might this idea be worthy of a thesis for someone? 

The great part of it all is Trump was a horrible actor and now an embarrassment of a politician.

But Putin likes him:-)

Frankly, I am underwhelmed with either of these last two comments having much insight at all, or bearing even a semblance of relevancy to the current conversation.

OK, Putin liked him until trump campaign made the 'punchline' ad. The Kremlin is very unhappy with that ad :(

😶.

Culturally speaking if I were to think about conclusions regarding Australian PM choices and vk4's statement concerning his rather low expectations from the general leadership pool, it is noted there is an accepted disconnect between a candidates morality behaviors and how their job performance ratings stack up. This certainly makes sense when criminality is a common ancestry trait and for forming a cultural common identity.

A royalty class for the British, in contrast, even if relegated to a figurehead, is something they are loathe to forgo culturally, even as their socialized politics make their togetherness, strange bedfellows.

It would seem culture and politics do co-exist but as variable separates. Much like an outfit has a top and bottom, if it is not a dress.

Trump wants to be president and he doesn't even understand how the first amendment works, ugh. https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-vs-protesters-165842356.html