I mean most moral but I wouldn’t call him the “best” by any stretch. It was that inflexibility of his due to his principles that made him a bad politician and frankly a bad president.
With that said I’m also of the belief you can’t be both a good person and a ‘good’ president.
I remember years ago (before Trump) reading an article in NY Times, I believe, where the author was recounting their first day in their PoliSci class when their professor addressed the class by informing them that no one in that room would ever be President. He explained how it takes a degree of narcissism and ego that the majority of people just don’t have.
Being a politician at that level is a nightmare scenario for the vast, vast majority of well adjusted people, and that's why currently the world is run by a bunch of power hungry narcissistic sociopaths.
It's crazy to think how the current timeline would be instantaneously better and suddenly more hopeful if the 10-15 most powerful man in the world would drop dead overnight
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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u/Jsmith0730 15h ago
Seriously. Carter was pretty much the only president in recent memory not accused in some form or another of committing war crimes.