No. In the movie, President Camacho recognized the smart guy was smart and wanted him to help because he was smart. We don't have leaders with that kind of wisdom and good intentions.
> No. In the movie, President Camacho recognized the smart guy was smart and wanted him to help because he was smart. We don't have leaders with that kind of wisdom and good intentions.
Also, Joe seemed genuinely interested in helping everyone, and didn't seem to neglect the needs of significant portions of the population to achieve some ideological goal or another.
Maybe there's such a thing as being too smart to have power.
To be fair Camacho was setting up Not Sure to be the fall guy. I don't think he really thought Not Sure could fix things.
That being said, it is a society who elected the smartest guy in the world president, and then when a smarter guy came along elected him as the successor.
When I watched the movie I laughed and thought it all ridiculous. I've since been shown that having well-intentioned, self-aware, cooperative people in government is probably more important than their intelligence.
