• rayyyy@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    When people start supporting potential candidates from the ground up there will be quality candidates at the top. Until then we get what we get.

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      10 months ago

      You sweet summer child. Ground-up grassroots candidates (in the US, at least) are usually crushed before you even know their names. Always have been. We’d have to have a completely different system for them to even be in the running. It’s designed that way.