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Originally Posted by Anteater
Eh, everything in politics is about establishing something like a cult of personality. JFK, FDR, Reagan, Obama, even Lincoln all told America at one point or another something along the lines of "I'm the guy with all the answers". Doesn't mean any of them actually did, but most of them are remembered better in retrospect than they were at the time of their actual presidencies.
I'm sure if you tried you could even come up with something nice to say about Nixon.
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It's because our current system doesn't cater to skills or innovation. It caters to sociopaths and sociopaths are really good at convincing people they have all the answers.