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[quote=Anonymous]Jared Yates Sexton‬:

People have to stop playing games with politics. Stop prognosticating about 2028. We don't know if there will be free and fair elections. Things are changing incredibly fast and conditions are wildly uncertain. Just because someone gives a good speech doesn't mean they're the person for the moment.
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We're living in very, very serious times. Politics aren't the same thing as spending your time gaming out the NFL Draft. Lock in. This isn't entertainment, it's not a fun pastime. We're dealing with matters of life or death for many people and democracy is in actual peril. Stop with this.

We've been taught to treat politics as an entertainment or spectator sport. The way cable news and corporate media and social media have warped a real sense of what politics are and what serious consequences they hold is abhorrent. People are behaving unseriously about some really serious shit.
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If you truly care about what happens to vulnerable people, your neighbors, your loved ones, reframe how you look at politics and stop looking for candidates who give good speeches or look the best on camera. Look for leaders who take actual moral and ethical stands for the vulnerable.
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If the past few years aren't enough to fundamentally change the way you approach politics and what you look for in leaders, it's probably time to take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself what you're actually after and what you actually believe in.[/quote]

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