It’s almost like Trump tried a coup to avoid leaving office the last time around.

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    He is borderline senile and doesn’t live the healthiest lifestyle. He might damage the system beyond repair, but I doubt he’ll stay around for much more than one legislature.

    Edit: Before getting angry and comment, do realize I wrote “he might damage the system beyond repair”…

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      So my grandpa is almost blind and his hands are shaky… the chances of him hitting me with that gun he is waving around are slim to none… so I guess it’s just fine to help him load the gun and make sure he has access to it whenever he wants… right?

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      He might damage the system beyond repair

      A guy like Trump doesn’t break the system, he simply exploits the oversized flaws people choose to ignore.

      One of the jokes in Trump claiming “I could assassinate a political rival of I felt like it” is the recognition that he’s absolutely correct. He could have rivals arrested. He could have rivals shot. He could have whole neighborhoods bombed.

      We do this overseas all the time. We just call it “regime change” and insist we did it as a favor for a population that will greet us as liberators.

      The only difference between Bush sending in the marines to snatch Saddam and Trump sending in the marines to snatch Ted Cruz is which bunker they’d be hiding in.

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    Undecided voters are concerned that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’ll never leave.

    And . . . yet they’re undecided??

    I don’t . . . is this a . . . I mean . . . WHAT.

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      Yeah but Biden is a disappointing centrist, so clearly I don’t know how choose between him and an authoritarian dictator.

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        You make a valid point, but the reason people are undecided is that they they have no properly informed opinions. I hate this narrative that Biden is ineffective. Biden has done a lot of good things. And where congress failed, he found a way to get shit done anyway. People don’t know that because media sucks and their echo chambers don’t tell them. Or alternatively, their expectation about what a president can do in one term is completely unreasonable.

        And that is all while ignoring that a republican congress will hold back the entire country for years just to make sure their guy looks better. And it works! People complain about shit not getting done but couldn’t tell you how their representatives voted on those things.

        So yeah, pretty much what you said. They think the candidates are roughly the same, but they have no clue how what their candidates do actually affects them.

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          And that is all while ignoring that a republican congress will hold back the entire country for years just to make sure their guy looks better. And it works! People complain about shit not getting done but couldn’t tell you how their representatives voted on those things.

          And when something does get pushed past the obstructionism and helps people out, Republicans sometimes claim credit for the very thing they voted against.

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            Or they sue the government with some BS argument for standing to have it repealed by activist judges.

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    Hidden? That’s literally the main argument when anyone surfaces a complaint about Biden. It’s always some variation of, “If we let Trump into the White House again our democracy is over.”

    The hangup isn’t awareness, it’s acceptance. People aren’t questioning that he’d try to be dictator for life, they doubt his ability to succeed. Once you’ve seen someone try something and fail it’s reasonable to think they’re just too incompetent to succeed.

    Whenever I see people ask for support for the claim they’re typically met with a hail of downvotes and name calling. That may feel righteous but it does absolutely nothing to recruit that person. Instead they’ll walk away with even stronger convictions.

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      Why would anyone take that chance? Doesn’t sound like you truly understand the stakes

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      Let me give you a small-text infographic about all the things Biden’s done so I can shame you into voting for him.

      Please don’t actually read the list, though.