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The Government Isn’t Ready for the Violence Trump Might Unleash (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

and the right candidates, but good candidates are indeed hard to come by.

Ya, I sometimes encourage running for office along with my encouragement to vote. It seems mostly only shitty people run for office, this needs to change.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Kinda goes with being rich. Which is pretty much a requirement to run for small offices in most of the country (pay is shit) and definitely requires to run in major races (advertising and organizing is expensive). So only rich dudes run, and you generally have to be some type of agile to get rich in the first place (there are exceptions, but not many).

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