Oz, who has a history of making degrading remarks about women, has no government experience. As a candidate for Senate in 2022, he expressed opposition to abortion at any point in pregnancy.
Oz, who has a history of making degrading remarks about women, has no government experience. As a candidate for Senate in 2022, he expressed opposition to abortion at any point in pregnancy.
Didn’t Arnie do a decent job, though? I didn’t live in California during his time in office, but it sounded mostly positive.
As I understand it, Arnie is actually fairly intelligent, and also surrounded himself with competent people who knew how to do the jobs he asked of them.
This is really the key factor. His acting chops probably just helped him convince people to vote for him; it wasn’t all there was to him.
I did not want to put in any judgment on how well celecreties do in office, it was just an observation that this doesn’t really seem to happen in other countries to this extend. But there instead mostly professional politicians or scientists like Angela Merkel run the show.
We’ve always nominated celebrities into higher office. In the early years of the country, celebrities were just generals. Still well known, voted because they were likely well known, just not what we would consider “celebrities” today. The effectiveness of these candidates could easily be disputed. But people vote because the name is familiar and not because of their policies. I have a feeling with all the muckraking and “alternative facts” today, the louder name will continue to have more chances than they should otherwise.
While I do think positively of him, I’ll raise the counter example of Ronald Reagan.