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.
I see a pattern, it’s the people he watches for years on TV and likes who he puts into leading positions.
To be honest this seems in character for the USA, this is what the american people are often doing too, putting celebrities from movies and TV in charge of their country, case in point Reagan, Schwarzeneger and Trump.
This is not exclusive to the US.
I had a look at the list you linked and was surprised to see the list pointing out Germans and Polish people so I looked a bit dealer.
The German guy was in the left party which is so small that they always have trouble to get over the 5℅ necessary to be in the Bundestag, so he has never been in any leading position. And even the nomination to become president failed. And even if he became a president, in Germany that is not a leading position, a president just represents a country like a King.
In Poland, for Lech Kaczyński (who was the president of Poland) the wikipedia article down not even mention his work as an actor. On IMDB 4 entries are there. He was voice acting for a animated movie as a 13 years old and this is the biggest of the movies he was involved. The next next is a documentary, so he is not acting. The next one is a special episode of a game show to which politicians have been invited as participants. So no acting here either.
The next from Poland Jarosław Kaczyński, the twin brother also only had the voice acting as a 13 years old and documentaries where he didn’t act listed on his IMDB page.
The third and last polish guy in the lis fits the description of a celebrity and politician in power, he was elected into parlament.
For Sweden nobody is listed. Same for South Korea. So from the countries I lived in my feeling that this doesn’t happen is supported by the list you linked.
But other Asian countries, god damn! The lists for India, the Philippines and so on are soooo long! I didn’t expect it. So it’s really different in different countries.
But then the list misses people like Boris Johnson, who was on telly a bit and became mayor of London and eventually PM of the UK mostly because of that.
He was awful at both roles, but people voted for him anyway because they’d heard of him.
I think people in general are politically unaware. It’s stuffy and boring, but affects everything. They should care, but it’s very hard to make them.
Yes the list is only about Actors, even Donald Trump is not in that list. Still an interesting list.
I guess if your whole life is an act, people forget.
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.
You can kick and scream but Trump really is the embodiment of America.
I can and I will continue to make a fuss about it, but goddamn it, you’re not wrong. He really is.
He’s the embodiment of America but dammit some of us really thought our country might be willing to attempt being better.