Reply #17: Wouldn't it depend who? [View All]

I didn't vote as it's not my country; but I think it would be great - or rather just what should be expected of a democracy- if people didn't need to have money and connections to become president, as so often they seem to (though am I right in thinking that Bill Clinton didn't come from particularly rich or upper-class origins?)

As regards an individual politician, it would depend what they were like overall. In Britain, we have had politicians like Maggie Thatcher and Norman Tebbit who came from lower-middle-class or working-class origins, but regarded themselves as having risen to a higher class purely through their own virtues and efforts, and were quite prepared to trample on poorer people who hadn't 'made it' and whom they therefore saw as undeserving. So it depends not only on a politician's origins but on their empathy.