I wholesale agree with your criticism of the current system, the status quo is not what i'm advocating for.
That said, an unintended consequence of the proposed policy, especially if we extend it to tv, is people simply have less exposure to the decision making process. I don't know if I am willing to make that trade. I don't like the idea of a president being able to hide behind the vale of formal behavior. If my president is a white supremacist sympathizer, I want to know. Scratch that, I deserve to know.
I realize public politicking is currently partisan theater, I'm not trying to deny that either. Still, even from that purview there may be hope, the more we are exposed to it, the sooner we'll grow tired and do something about it with our votes. I don't know enough about the politicians from that state to qualify if it was a good thing or not, but Georgia just went blue during a runoff of all things! I'm sure part of that was fueled by the president's voter fraud saber rattling.
I know its hard to separate the person from the idea, but I really loved that the president, not his staff, tweeted. From it I learned that he either believes or is while to spread conspiratorial narratives as long as he sees a benefit from it. The things he tweeted seemed way worse than the "Smart people said that..." / "I heard that..." kinda stuff he did during his rallies. That is a character flaw I don't want thumbing over the button.
That said, an unintended consequence of the proposed policy, especially if we extend it to tv, is people simply have less exposure to the decision making process. I don't know if I am willing to make that trade. I don't like the idea of a president being able to hide behind the vale of formal behavior. If my president is a white supremacist sympathizer, I want to know. Scratch that, I deserve to know.
I realize public politicking is currently partisan theater, I'm not trying to deny that either. Still, even from that purview there may be hope, the more we are exposed to it, the sooner we'll grow tired and do something about it with our votes. I don't know enough about the politicians from that state to qualify if it was a good thing or not, but Georgia just went blue during a runoff of all things! I'm sure part of that was fueled by the president's voter fraud saber rattling.
I know its hard to separate the person from the idea, but I really loved that the president, not his staff, tweeted. From it I learned that he either believes or is while to spread conspiratorial narratives as long as he sees a benefit from it. The things he tweeted seemed way worse than the "Smart people said that..." / "I heard that..." kinda stuff he did during his rallies. That is a character flaw I don't want thumbing over the button.