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FrozenBananas posted...

what choice do you think we have, PO? I thought you were supposed to be smart

A large part of what put Trump in office in the first place was "Well, anyone is better than Hillary."

Four years from now, are we going to be saying "Well, anyone is better than Biden/Harris", and making this exact same mistake again?

Maybe, just maybe, if people put more than 30 seconds worth of thought into voting and didn't just vote for whatever they consider "the lesser evil", we wouldn't wind up with elections where every choice is the wrong one.

Realistically, what needs to happen is that more focus needs to be put on the primaries, and people need to vote in those with a mind towards candidates that can actually appeal to the larger population and not just the ones who pander to their own constituency best in the short run. But that would actually require an informed voter base willing to turn Netflix off for a few hours to actually research things or act to make their voice heard, and that's way too hard. Certainly harder than occasionally bitching about the President on Twitter.

Sure, it may be too late (again) to do anything other than vote for the "lesser evil" this time around, but failing to understand WHY we keep fucking up means we're never going to STOP fucking up. If people want politics and government to actually improve, they need to stop seeing elections as a team sport where "our team" needs to win and the "other side" are all just mindless, brainless, stupid sheep who are wrong 100% of the time who only exist so we can make fun of them on Internet message boards and score sarcastic "cool" points on Twitter.
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