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Belle Moon's avatar

Politics should be about who's best for governing, not who's more likeable or who has better rhetoric because leading a country isn't personality and words alone. I'm in Venezuela, our politics are a shit show, and people look for a savior instead of using their critical thinking to improve our nation. We need better education, less ideology and more reality checking. I truly wish the best for the US, and I'm doing my best to bring nuance back to the conversation. Thank you for this.

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I actually do believe 2016 was probably the most consequential election in history, an election where the voters (on one side) wrested control away from an elite that had been giving us their approved candidates. The chaos induced since is the holy war this elite is perpetrating to put us back in our place, to get back to when politics was boring. The chaos is coming from the elite and the half the country, the gutless Progressive left, that sheepishly went along with their elite telling them that Bernie was not acceptable. The looming election is also consequential but not because of a single man as those with TDS seem to believe, but it will show it's possible for voters to come together in strength to choose our leaders. The republican base choosing Trump over the "acceptable" candidates is similar to the overthrow of the feudal system. Another similar event in history is advancement of women in the 60's and 70's. It's no accident the democratic lunatics are attacking female rights and boundaries with Big Trans. Some attack comes from the right, advancing the idea that if women just got back to living their "essential nature" then all bad stuff would go away and we would be boring again. I prefer to work through the problems. We can make politics boring again if we put the elites back in their proper place, as advisors instead of acting as our feudal lords. But it's going to be rough for a bit as dictators and control freaks don't easily give up control and will try and bring down the whole system.

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