... seems like we are always putting our hope in people who…
... seems like we are always putting our hope in people who only look good in comparison to the offensively low-quality candidates we are used to. Trump looks good compared to Biden, sure, but he's literally a clown. RFK Jr. looks good in comparison to poison-pushers. Tucker Carlson looks like a voice of truth and reason compared to the relentless propaganda. But if it wasn't for the comparison, who would think these people are a good choice for anything? Tucker is the real life meme of "the guy who just started paying attention" RFK Jr. is from one of the "power-families". Elon is basically on board with every UN agenda you can think of. Trump, while being a funny stand-up comedian, is like a caricature of a human being. And, funny enough, they all seem to gently nudge the people in the direction of the global agenda while pretending to stand against it. I want to hope, but I'd rather put my hope on someone who isn't part of the club and who doesn't just look good in comparison to Jack the Ripper.
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True, but this the best we've got. For all its failings, I still rate Trump's administration over Biden's term. (And that includes Trump fast tracking the death jabs.) None of it's okay, really none of it, but as David Hume once said:
"Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.
Most fortunately it happens, that since Reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends. And when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.”
― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
I guess my point is that it's not the best we got at all, it's just the best within a two-party-system divide and rule paradigm. But I understand what you are saying.
Agreed.