Democratic show

Probably this has been discussed already, but initially I liked the idea of Tom Kirkman being an independent president. They liked to show him originally as a fiscally conservative, socially liberal President (and being myself someone of those ideological leanings, it sounded amazing). But as the show went on, I saw how it really was a liberal show. Kirkman ended up a liberal in the style of Jed Bartlett, which is something acceptable (after all, he served in the HUD under a Democratic White House), but don’t portray yourself as a centrist if so. He usually sided more with the Democrats than with the Republicans on the debates, they portrayed the Democratic leaders like Diane Hunter, Eleanor Darby (at least at the beginning) or Aaron Shore himself as good while Republicans such as Jack Bowman or James Royce were the bad guys. Cornelius Moss started off as an interesting figure, but when they revealed us he was a Republican, something that went unmentioned when he was one of the good guys, he became this far-right extremist.

All of Kirkman’s VPs: MacLeash, Darby and Aaron were Democrats. And in the presidential election, he was the de facto democratic candidate, because we never saw Porter (who was portrayed as a businessman, more associated with conservatism). We only saw Kirkman, who was more liberal, with Aaron, versus Moss, who was the Republican one.

It is a shame because the premise of the show was good.