ABSOLUTELY. I do too. Trump has thrown a million gutter balls against that and I'm afraid we will never go back. Obviously I wouldn't vote for Oprah. It's just a hypothetical discussion. It's like asking Trump supporters why he's so qualified and so Teflon. It signifies nothing, unfortunately. Remember when some people talked about how unqualified Obama was? Community organizer.
Oh, yeah, I have no problem with the hypothetical discussion, if only because I wouldn't rule out Oprah or somebody like her wanting to run someday. And let's be real, at this point, a
rock would do a better job running this country than Trump has, so I definitely get the whole "At this point, I'll take ANYONE else" mindset
. And I can see people thinking that we may need a celebrity to take on, and ultimately take down, a celebrity, too. I would not be surprised if we do follow Trump in 2020 with another celebrity.
And if there's a celebrity out there who actually did study politics at some point in their lives, and had some level of serious political involvement, and showed during the campaign that they were actually learning and listening to and showing respect for the more experienced people around them, I could see people willing to vote for somebody like that. Because at least they've put in the time and work and effort necessary to prove they would take this job seriously, and this isn't just some vanity job for them.
But yeah. Hopefully, at some point, we do get back to the days when our presidential candidates are people for whom this job was their main focus, and not have people running for the office just for the hell of it, and being famous for reasons that have nothing to do with their political experience.
For the record, I do think, were Oprah to run, she would have some good political ideas...but yes. There's a lot of reservations regarding her, too, notably the thing with her promoting questionable doctors and such. That's something we desperately need to put a stop to going forward, having political candidates who push ridiculous conspiracy theories and promote things of questionable worth (like virtually every item Trump's put his name on, for instance). Hell, that's something we need to fix in this country in general. Too many people buying into way too many falsehoods and snake oli BS and whatnot out there.
ETA: Oooooookay, looks like I'm gonna REALLY need to break out the popcorn with all this Cohen/Manafort/Omarosa/tweet stuff going on right now.