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Schumer was brought into a briefing on Iran and clearly 'got his mind right' in there. I don't know who makes decisions in government, but it's not the people on camera. US elections are irrelevant to consequential matters, and we waste too much time thinking about them.

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I never understand how someone can look at Trump and the last year and think elections don’t matter or have consequences.

I think this framing is bad, it's not that people don't think there are consequences it's that it's 50/50 on whether the consequences will be personally worse for them. There are few, maybe no upsides, to elections in the U.S. for the majority of the electorate.

> US elections are irrelevant to consequential matters

This is nonsense. If you actually believe this, spend some time around your elected representatives and in Washington.

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