cynicism is absolutely poisonous to politics
if you don't expect any of your local politicians to stand for anything, and just treat them all as interchangeable corrupt douchebags, the end result is going to be an environment where corruption and cronyism runs amok
and we already got plenty of that, alright?
i don't want every country's politics to turn into a variation of early 20th century u.s., where instead of running on a consistent set of ideals or at least practical concerns, parties just draft random communities in order to get their votes (apparently, back then you'd have, as an example, the democrats in some city pledging support to the local irish community and the republicans to the polish community, and the only reason to vote for a party would be so it would benefit your community specifically)
if you don't expect any of your local politicians to stand for anything, and just treat them all as interchangeable corrupt douchebags, the end result is going to be an environment where corruption and cronyism runs amok
and we already got plenty of that, alright?
i don't want every country's politics to turn into a variation of early 20th century u.s., where instead of running on a consistent set of ideals or at least practical concerns, parties just draft random communities in order to get their votes (apparently, back then you'd have, as an example, the democrats in some city pledging support to the local irish community and the republicans to the polish community, and the only reason to vote for a party would be so it would benefit your community specifically)
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