• @[email protected]
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    165 months ago

    How is it that in a country of 300 million where half are Democrats, you can’t find a single politician that isn’t that isn’t a terrible choice for president? I’m asking as an outsider. Why would hilare be a good VP when she was destroyed for being a war mongering asshole? Why is Biden running against Trump while on deaths door?

    • @Eldritch
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      65 months ago

      Because money is speech. Those with money are the loudest. Nothing more, nothing less. Running for office is unaffordable to the average person. By Design. The system could work. If campaigns were only publicly funded.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 months ago

      We don’t really decide who we get to vote for for president. The GOP and DNC pick “their people”, and then the people who aren’t exhausted by the concept try to pick the least bad one of the two choices.

    • @return2ozmaOP
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      55 months ago

      It’s pretty abysmal. It’s the oligarchy that picks who they want.

      • @[email protected]
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        75 months ago

        Yeah. The primary election process is entirely a sham. We have no real choice in selecting the candidates.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 months ago

          I mean, I guess in most countries it’s the parties who pick the candidates but at least there’s real choice of a handful

    • BoofStroke
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      45 months ago

      People with real skills and leadership ability aren’t politicians.