In actual fact, the CEOs job is the exact opposite of the president's job. The CEO's primary responsibility is to financially enrich its stockholders. His or her only real concern is making money. It's nice if your employees are happy but that's not what we're here for. And to the extent to which that improves the company's ability to make money a good CEO will make the effort to satisfy his employees needs but only in so far as it helps the company be more profitable and make more money for its investors.
The president's job is just the opposite. The president and his administration's responsibility is to take the money garnered through taxes and fees and use it to enrich the lives of its citizenry. Rather than money being the end-all or the goal of the goverment that the President heads, money is nothing other than a route to the success and happiness and safety of the citizens of the United States. It's much more about spending money than making money, and finding the best way to do that that most improves the lives of the people who live here. All the people who live here, not just a handful of the richest and most powerful.
The fact that that isn't what's happening is not an indictment of the system as much as it is an indictment of the people who we have elected to run the system. If we elect to government people who promised to tear it down, or who completely lack the skills necessary to effectively run the government as it was designed to be run, then we shouldn't be surprised that the government doesn't work as we hope and expect it to.
A CEO is the exact opposite of what we need in the White House. We need a humanist, a psychiatrist, and a social worker. We need somebody who recognizes what his responsibility is, not someone who wants to change the nature of our democracy. We need someone who will care for the citizenry as a parent cares for his family. Someone who recognizes that they are the reason he's in his position not his own personal desires and interests. Someone who understands that the immediate wants and needs are not all that must be considered in decisions that affect the whole country. Someone who recognizes that they have the ultimate responsibility for shepherding the nation towards productive and cooperative goals that serve the nation at large rather than small portions of it.
I don't think even Republican America is stupid or ignorant enough to elect a full on narcissist as president of the United States. We have obviously had people that are not that smart and we have had people who didn't always have all of our interests at heart, but we have never intentionally chosen someone who was such an obviously defective individual to lead our country. We haven't chosen one, at least in my lifetime, who's very goals were to tear the social fabric of our country apart.
I am very hopeful that we are not going to do that now.
