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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. My vote:
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 08:29 AM
Jul 2015

Why did I choose 'All will do a bad job?'

Because in a vacuum, I suspect they'll do what basically every other President has done - give it fairly minimal thought and effort.

But I also think that Hillary, Bernie, or Martin have the potential to be ok on those problems IF constantly pushed. Just like other issues. Most of us have (especially most of us white people) have been pretty crappy citizens. We've treated elections as our only real obligation to making the country a better place. We've sat back and let the status quo go on status quoing, we've said 'they're right', when listening to protestors, maybe signed a petition or two, but otherwise done SQUAT about injustices that haven't (yet) directly impacted us in a way we can't ignore or pretend is the fault of something other than the real cause. We elect someone, then ignore them, other than to grumble to ourselves. We don't put any real effort in getting them to DO any of the things we supposedly elected them to DO.

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