Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday that America “is not sending their best and brightest” to represent them in Congress. “Sometimes you literally just can’t believe like, these people are mak…

  • @aluminium
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    -81 year ago

    No shit, almost no government does. There is already a big negative selection going on before that. Those who lick the boots of the party’s leaders and or don’t mind fucking over others to gain an advantage make the race.

    • @[email protected]
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      291 year ago

      almost no government does

      While that is technically true, the problem is MUCH worse in the US than in most other democracies.

      Funny how a country where political corruption is not just legal but considered necessary to obtain public office; where there’s only two major parties (both of which are actually billion dollar private corporations); where all of the biggest news organisations are owned by a few billionaires subject to no standards except expectations of profits and where voter suppression is more rampant than in any other modern democracy would have a problem with unqualified demagogues being elected…

      Thank FSM people like Fetterman are saying what the establishment has been refusing to acknowledge!