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> Is that what we're voting for now? A completely interchangeable figurehead that just covers for a bureaucratic group project?

I mean, yes? Technically, you're not even electing a group, let alone a person, but a party.

I know politicians themselves love to turn this into a question of "personality" (with the press amply helping), but it seems more rational to look at which administration is elected and which groups/orgs/donors/etc are backing it, than debate which candidate can simulate the best smalltalk or do the most spectacular campaign rally.