i don't even have a favorite politician. no person-cult for me, nuh uh
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Having a favorite politician seems odd to me
Yup. This right here. It's not a fucking sporting event.
You're right, it's like WWE, "sports entrainment" - after all, it's all scripted and they have to sell taking a dive while getting paid.
That is a disturbingly accurate comparison.
Every election here in Sweden and EU I come to the same conclusion:
There are no good political parties, the best you can do is to vote for the least bad party, and hope that it works out.
Pretty much all over the world people say that and then race to vote for the second worst party/person because “the better one could never win.”
Vote for who you most align with, anything less than that is just betraying yourself and prolonging the inevitable slide to the right.
The issue you are describing seems to mostly stem from the idiotic and unfair system of first past the post, Sweden has proportional representation, so I do end up voting for the party I mostly align with, even if it is a completely new party.
I have voted for several different parties in the three normal elections, even at the same election day.
Then we have the act of protest voting, as well as support voting. These are tactics you can use in a proper voting system with a healthy amount of political alliances.
People will socially and otherwise murder to keep proper voting systems out of the USA.
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Yea I’m in Canada and it’s that problem. We should be 8-9 years deep into ranked choice or similar but our centrist party that ran on that promise fucked it up big time because they realized that they’d probably never win an election ever again. Their entire platform basically depends on the Conservatives being such absolute trash that no one feels safe voting for our leftist, progressive party.
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If you have a politician that you rank above others, then by definition, that is your favorite politician.
I would say preferred, not favorite
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1000% agreed, but fuck if I wasn't literally smitten listening to Lina Khan talk. Attacking corporate hegemony really gets my engine going.
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Vermin Supreme?
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Not in a cult, but my boy George Santos is flawless
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I think he goes by mother shabubu now
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Having a favorite politician is weird, like having a favorite landlord. You should care about the policies and efficacy of your politician, and not really give a fuck beyond that, unless they are a rapist, serial drunk driver, or something like that.
~~favorite~~ least hated?
I think "most tolerable" would be acceptable.
I was supposed to have a favorite politician? I just assume that anyone who wanted a position of power is probably plotting something
The people who need to read this cannot read.
I wish that was a joke. There is a direct correlation with the rise of fascism and the decline of American reading scores. Currently nearly a quarter of our adult population is functionally illiterate. Meaning they can identify words, they can send texts, they can reply to messages or read headlines, but are incapable of anything more advanced than that.
We somehow think that there's a sharp line between "cannot read at all" and "can sit down with a paperback and be whisked away to another world" when actually it's a spectrum, like everything else.
Really what this means is that a sizeable set of our population, because they suck at reading, also suck at forming language in their heads, and because of this cannot manage and consider complicated, abstract ideas or reframe thoughts into words that can be analyzed. When you live like this, you tend to just go along with whatever other people are doing and you have intense emotional reactions to everything you see.
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If you're an American and you can't name... let's say... 10 presidents, then it's probably a bad sign if you even have a favorite politician.
I disagree with Bernie Sanders about eliminating national-states.
There.
I said it.
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It's worse than that, there are Republicans that know he's morally reprehensible, might destroy the country, know he is incompetent, and still worship him.
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John Brown died (how could he?!) and left America without guidance until Malcolm X came around...
Sure, I have a favorite politician!
cue shooting range targets
The one with the most holes is my favorite!
Having a favourite politician is alrrady almost cult like. Yeah, you can like and support some of their ideas but at the end of the day they are a politician.
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