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Originally Posted by Lucas McCain
Donald Trump is the damn president. Is it really that crazy to some that this motherfucker is now mayor of NYC? This country has proven that we will elect anyone regardless of how unqualified they are if they are a skilled bullshitter and we think things are in the toilet and a good flush is necessary.
People foolishly elected Trump thinking that he could do something about bloated prices. What makes you think a damn mayor can't get elected with a similar bullshit yet more extreme campaign strategy?
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Lucas, I get where you are coming from and agree in principle.
What I am seeing is a deeply rooted frustration on the part of voters. Frustration with political disfunction from both sides going back as far as Y2K or earlier if one is older.
The so-called "Gulf Wars" were ill advised as was "leading from behind" during the Arab Spring. We are all frustrated by what and how things have gone for quite a while now.
The latest fling with "unqualified" leadership, whether it is DJT or Mandani is, in my view, from our collective experience with President Biden (imminently qualified in the conventional political sense) or any of the failed Republican presidential candidates, Dole, McCain, Romney et al . . .again, all of them "qualified" in the conventional political sense. And so this vote frustration (on both sides) has lead to looking at these outsider, non politicians.
In my view, this is a general phenomenon affecting the broad spectrum of the electorate in general.