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> I'm not sure how much more embarrassed I can get for my country.

Every election season, I’ve said, “These are some of the worst candidates I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure how much lower the bar can get.” And then it gets lower.

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I submit one of the reasons our candidates are so bad is that our discourse refuses to hold them to account. Instead of taking a position and punishing bad acts, we excuse them by telling ourselves the other side "would have been" just as bad. So the lesson successful candidates take away is that they don't need to adhere to principles, because their voters will find some mental excuse (like you just did!) to vote for them anyway.

If you don't want this to happen you can't vote for the administration (not "candidates") who did it. Nothing changes until someone starts losing elections. But my guess is you aren't willing to go that far, because of something about Biden.

Remember that Kennedy won because the mob stuffed ballot boxes for him.

The only thing that's changed every election is that you're 4 years older an paying attention.

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