Looking For the Right Candidate

SHOW ME A CANDIDATE who is out of touch with average Americans, whose policy proposals conflict with human nature, and I'll show you a potentially great American president. This is distinctly contrary to accepted wisdom, which holds that being out of touch with the American people and human nature disqualifies presidential candidates. Accepted wisdom is, surprisingly, often wrong. A good candidate would be someone who has traditionally been in touch with mainstream American culture, but has of late lost touch with it, through sheer disgust. Sheer disgust inspires an urge to reform. Someone who tried tweeting, and Facebook, but gave up on both, as being frivolous and silly, and who went through something similar with the Kardashians. Similarly, let's exclude religious fanatics from consideration, and those who deny global warming, evolution, and socialism. The American people need and deserve a president who understands that although climate change occurs constantly and naturally, and although carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, those two facts do not in any way address the question of human impact on the ecosystem through carbon dioxide manufacture and release. Would it be possible to elect someone who does not piously claim to be the most patriotic person in America, and that the United States of America is the greatest nation not only in the world, but in the universe? Human nature, if nothing else, is complicated, in that it seems that humans are capable of just about any kind of behavior. Some human nature we definitely want to encourage - but not all. Verily, free market capitalism conforms to human nature, which tends to be self serving, but humans are also communal, social, and cooperative, and just because we use a little pre planning in our economy and don't always rely entirely on the free market doesn't mean that we're straying from human nature. The use of reason to moderate and shape our natural behavioral inclinations is indispensable for our continued survival.