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Originally Posted by Got Stripers
Ask yourself the important question, who is caption of the ship, if he steered the ship on the right course we collectively would not have run aground on the ledge. The caption owns it regardless of what others around him say or do, but you keep harping on it like it changes anything.
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The ship metaphor doesn't work for our constitutional system of government.
Our country is not like a ship. More like a bunch of different boats, ships, planes, cars, pedestrians, and infinitely more.
The President does not have the nearly absolute power of a ship's captain.
The citizens are not all riding the same vehicle, nor heading for the same destination, nor working in unison for the same objective, nor in support of the President.
Not only are the citizens destinations, beliefs, philosophies, desires, opinions, not the same, they conflict, oppose, fight, seek to change leaderships and directions, and do whatever is necessary to defeat leaders, including the President, including to lie about anything he does or says.
China is much more like a ship than is the U.S.
As an opponent of the President, you can say that nothing he does is right, all that you claim is wrong is due to him and he owns it, and he doesn't own all that may be going well because it is due to his predecessor who still owns it even though he is no longer the captain.