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by makeitdouble
878 days ago
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> not long ago many other leaders sold a vision of freedom, universal rights, opportunity, democracy, and fundamental equality. The first name that came into my mind was MLK. Rest in Peace. In a weird way, I think as we're getting better access to information, keeping a clean image as a politician is way harder. Being openly dirty and overwhelming the audience with the dirt until the overtone window shifts becomes a more viable strategy than pushing for a cleaner agenda and have it burned through the ground with all the contradictions that emerge from being a politician in the first place. I see a light at the end of the tunnel with people getting more engaged in the pressing issues and being more vocal in aggregate. Getting a better mix of sheer individual input and elected representatives could be a way out, we could accept that they're scumbags but genuinely act under our input, even if at times it will result in stuff like Brexit. > Every battle has been tough Yes, wholeheartedly agree. |
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We don't have to go nearly as far (or high) as MLK: Obama, GWB, Clinton, GHWB, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon (iirc), Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, FDR, etc etc. ...
> keeping a clean image as a politician is way harder
Biden and Obama were/have been pretty clean. It's not that hard.