both US parties and both of their bases have gotten substantially worse over the last twenty years. and it seems to be accelerating i would probably prefer any major party candidate from the years of 1968 through 2012 to any major party candidate after. for like. any office
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In the aughts I believe it would have been a Downer of a System.
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I, for one, blame social media. This is a very original opinion that I alone hold.

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You're mad! Mad, I say! ...and I would be saying that if I had to walk down to the post office to mail it to you, mark my words!
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It's an inevitability As soon as you start compromising ideals to get a win over the other team, then it becomes a race to the bottom. Deontology ftw.
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idk its certainly annoying to deal with all the drama queens but it feels to me like this is more real, the end of a long period of manufactured consensus
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much prefer manufactured consensus to manufactured killing each other
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Its a huge blackpill, no redemption in sight
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hating politics is playing politics (everybody hates politics, so this is easy validation & status fuel)
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Perhaps it's not because we have a different discourse now but because we have the *same* discourse and it's decaying unlike in the better years when the discourse itself (topics, players, axioms, theories, worldviews) would churn
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