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The beatings continue until morals improve...
This is exactly the problem with the US oligarchy and how it filters candidates that are allowed to run for elections.
Yeah keep pretending both sides are equal while one side guts this nation like a pig. Helps you sleep at night, I bet.
They're not equal. You've also acquired such a hair trigger for "enlightened centrists" that you've started shooting the messenger.
The most important lesson of this last election? The laymen do not give a fuck about how the government functions, or the need to preserve the institution itself for further generations. Erosion of the rule of law? Loyalty tests? Pardoning insurrectionists? Absolutely off their radar.
They care about the hurt on their wallet, and the fact that the incumbent party is telling them "everything is fine". Do they care that tariffs will put the squeeze on them even more? No, that requires a passing understanding of basic economics.
The larger voting body operates on the status quo. That's it. If they dislike the status quo, they need an appealing explanation of why they should expect things to change under your stewardship. Controversies used to help swing an election, but we're so saturated with excuses for outrage that a lot of it no longer registers on the radar.
Realistically we have a party representing stagnation, and a party representing volatility.
That first bullet? Pretty fucking important. You seem to want them to win because they value the rule of law. Good on you, so do I. But that party is gonna continue to get black eyes because their priority is on the status quo of the party, not the status quo of their constituents. They consistently fuck it up every time they're given a choice between the two.
Yeah, people should be appreciative of not being gutted. They can still be fucked, but they should just happily spread the legs. Never expect more than not being fucked at least.
If you think taxing the rich and removing money from politics is getting fucked, then you deserve every misfortune.