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I watched another great episode of 24 last nite and had a thought. Now that everyone's finding out how the snarky President whats-his-name is so evil and destroying the world, all the upper people are trying to go about exposing him in a "safe" manner. Like how Secretary Heller was like - we can't out him publicly cos it'd destroy the American people's faith in the presidency; then someone else was like we can't make it public cos it'd destroy peoples faith and trust in the whole government. After hearing this a couple of times I thought, well its not so much that it'll shatter everyones faith in the government, most likely if something like that happened we'd chalk it up to the idea of on some level we expect our government leaders to be corrupt, morally deficient individuals, its somewhat inherent in the job.

Nixon had people spying on his political enemies, FDR was fine with the Holocaust before Hawaii got bombed, how many presidents owned slaves??? And countless other episodes in the highest level of office where the guy sitting in the white house did something shady. So if the American people of 24 found out about sneaky shady president I think they'd do what we'd do: most of us would quietly sit back and let our Congressman impeach him, after that everyone would go to protests (probably violent after awhile) where we'd call for a criminal trail - cos that would be the simplest and hardest thing to do and get done. No one from Iran-Contra is in jail are they?? (I really dont know - I'm barely old enough to know who Ollie North is)can't expect a criminal trail for a president that easily.