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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.
Having a favorite politician seems odd to me
If you have a politician that you rank above others, then by definition, that is your favorite politician.
I would say preferred, not favorite
Favorite just means most preferred.
Preferred means favoured, not necessarily favorite
Many Republicans worshipped Reagan decades after his passing.🤷♂️
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.
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.
People will socially and otherwise murder to keep proper voting systems out of the USA.
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Vermin Supreme?
1000% agreed, but fuck if I wasn't literally smitten listening to Lina Khan talk. Attacking corporate hegemony really gets my engine going.
Why the fuck would anyone have a favorite politician?
because he smiles like he's part of your family and makes you feel good while standing firm in his beliefs against untold amounts of racism from all sides of the political stage?
ahem. I mean yeah why would they. I'm not in a cult. shut up.
I'm fond of Robert La Follette (one of the loudest voices against US entry into WWI), Russ Feingold (only senator to vote against the Patriot Act), and Bernie (who doesn't need an introduction). In all of history, there are some politicians that stand above the rest.
No one has a fav politician
I guess those people mean whom they support in an election
Suppose I polled the American people’s agreement with the statement “In all of human history there is one politician who is my favorite above all others, and that politician is President Donald Trump.”
We know that I would get tens of millions of people who genuinely and strongly agree with that. It would be depressingly close to, if not over, a hundred million.
Or maybe over 100M before the Epstein revolt and below after, lol.
John Brown died (how could he?!) and left America without guidance until Malcolm X came around...
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.
Not in a cult, but my boy George Santos is flawless
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I think he goes by mother shabubu now
Sure, I have a favorite politician!
cue shooting range targets
The one with the most holes is my favorite!
This is a two way street though. Someone should tell both sides. They both love their billionaires. Notice how neither side has gotten shit done that help the people?
If your sides are left and right they don't both love billionaires.
Take an ideological side, not a political party side.
I disagree with Bernie Sanders about eliminating national-states.
There.
I said it.
Having a hard time thinking of something bad to say about AOC
She voted for more money and weapons for Israel and funding ICE under Biden.
Oh :(
Pham Minh Chinh is banning ICE scooters in the capital in 1 year, and cars 2 years after that.
What could I possibly criticize him for? Not banning vinfast cars blocking traffic with fewer than 3 people?