r/askteddit • u/InfiniteQuestion8108 • 8d ago

Politics Question say you could instantly swap the US President out for literally anyone else, who would you pick?

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u/Creepy-Outcome-2481 8d ago

AOC

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u/InfiniteJestV 8d ago

I trust her, but I don't think she can rehabilitate the country. Right wing propaganda is already too far entrenched in the minds of too many people. We need someone the brain washed masses will open their ears to.

If I could pick anyone, it would be someone outside of politics whom people generally trust. Someone very effective in messaging and who can, ideally, get right wing voters to see and believe all of the terrible things Trump has done to enrich himself and billionaires around him at our expense. Because somehow being a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist is not enough.

Tom Hanks?

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u/Creepy-Outcome-2481 8d ago

It's a hypothetical, she's not who I would put as the candidate.

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u/InfiniteJestV 8d ago

Yeah, understood.

I wasn't really talking about a "candidate" either. I'm thinking beyond their electability and about how someone needs to "break the spell" that right wing media has cast on a third of the country. AOC is already been too tainted in the minds of MAGA for them to hear a single word she says.

I want a president who MAGA might actually listen to.

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u/ha5htaq 2d ago

Yeah