On some level I like to believe many people think of it as a disqualifying issue but recognize that this is a bad time and a bad system to disqualify anyone.
That is entirely the fault of the faulty democratic system. Voters like to think they have the power but they don’t have much in America. They can’t even all swing to a third candidate and vote for them.
After this last primary, I can’t agree with you.
The Democrats had Marianne Williamson, who is by far a more moral and progressive candidate, and wasn’t suffering clear and public cognitive decline.
Zero votes.
The Republicans had Nikki Haley and a host of others, who will also some degree of asshole, weren’t nearly the same degree of asshole as Trump. (And also weren’t suffering very public cognitive decline.)
Zero votes.
Is the system bad? Yes. But folks who vote party every single time always seem to pick the worst candidates too, and it’s eminently clear that genocide and war crimes aren’t considered disqualifying factors in voters’ choices.
Partisans, in essence, vote for whoever NBC and Fox tell them to.
