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What you really want here is for Congress to be disbanded and a Parliament put in place. I agree.
I'm fed up fighting over which celebrity gets to play king every 4 years. I'd accept if the position were instead chosen at random (lottery) from the pool of all qualifying citizens.
When was the last time we had a president from the lower class?
Never. Maybe Obama kinda?
Preamble: this respon is the result of me learning a lot quickly and although the tone may have the scent of a smack-down, it really isn't. The only thing I knew before I started writing this was that both Michelle and Barack were lawyers, and lawyers are rarely lower class (unless they're shit lawyers, and even then... look at Giuliani).
The Obamas were well-off long before his election; maybe not rich, but certainly solid middle/upper middle-class. Michelle alone had an income of $317k. Even in the state senate, which dragged his salary down, Barack was pulling $90k - for a total household income of $400k. Once he entered the US, that number jumped into the millions.
They were both successful lawyers, and were solidly upper middle-class since well before his election to president. Barack himself went to Columbia and Harvard; both his parents were college educated - his mother was a PhD-degreed anthropologist; he himself attended a private prepatory school.
Barack, at least, did not come from a lower-class upbringing, and since marrying Michelle were well on their way to upper-class.
But that was a reasonable guess; he has been the only recent president who wasn't upper class, at least. You'd have to go back before Reagan to find a president who didn't come from money, and I'm not sure that even then would you find one.