• ours@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s so sad these elections are no longer about what policies each candidate promises to apply if elected but about attacking the other candidate.

    But the Democrats have to play by the current rules. Taking the moral high ground on the campaign trail was not going to get them elected. One can argue that the moral obligation is not to let Trump and his cronies win so that more reasonable policies can be put in place.

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      3 months ago

      It’s so sad these elections are no longer about what policies each candidate promises to apply if elected but about attacking the other candidate.

      'Twas always thus.

      When we first got cable TV and access to US channels, I was shocked that US campaigns were almost entirely “my opponent is a crook, so vote for me” attack ads. At the time, Canadian politics was still biased towards making promises (that the politicians never kept).

      That was 1981.

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      3 months ago

      criticising trump seems to play less of a role than progress in her campaign.