• Nytefyre@kbin.melroy.org
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    10 days ago

    In a perfect world, we should be voting for the person with the most solutions that would improve the world as well as country.

    We shouldn’t be voting on those who’s likely going to be half-assed.

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      10 days ago

      We don’t live in a perfect world. Someone is going to be president for the next 4 years, and at this stage of the game we have 2 distinct choices.

      Also, what you called half-assed someone else might call the democracy process. Just because YOU want something doesn’t mean I want the same thing. Your vision for how to solve Palestine or Ukraine or improve wealth equality might be vastly different from mine. Just because you don’t get exactly what you want doesn’t mean the system is useless or not worth participating in. If you were to get exactly what you want, then I’d be getting walked over. If I get exactly what I want, then you’d say you are not being heard.

      The only fair system is to elect a big-tent party and then work through dialog on trying to reach either consensus or fair compromise on the various topics. But we won’t have that option if we let the fascists get control and do their Project 2025 thing while ignoring us.

      • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        It boils down to good politics is boring and full of compromise.

        Lot’s of talking and compromise doesn’t make for good headlines or scare motivate voters to the polls. There is room to add the large media companies to the blame of ‘perfection’ since they are always looking for the imperfect to talk about. And then they bash that imperfect-ness into the ground.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 days ago

      we should be voting for the person with the most solutions that would improve the world as well as country.

      well, i would remove the whole world portion, because that’s an extremely broad brush and can cause problems. It’s better to just focus on having the best and most productive leadership possible, the more advancement you can do the better.