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> It is our own fault: we no longer vote for idealism.

We who?

> And the other party will just drag you through the mud if you try to run on something like "hope."

A pretty much immutable property of the two-party system in the US has been -- from day one -- that the other side will drag you through the mud for whatever you say. Whether it is idealistic or pragmatic or anything else.

The idea that this is somehow new is, well, historically blind.




We the citizens and voters. We do vote these people in office.




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