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In reply to the discussion: This campaign ad! HOLY SHIT YES! [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That's a reality to first protect and then to build on.
Voters need to take the Hippocratic oath: First, do no harm.
We need to elect rational people with realistic world views who are able to identify and protect both what's working for hundreds of millions and what is not and to develop and implement real answers to real problems. Competent people.
Not everyone who runs for office is. Some very caring people don't -- can't -- have a realistic and competent understanding of their world or its problems, and even sometimes of right and wrong.
So I have a very different reaction to this. Everyone who voted for this "sky is falling" woman would be responsible for whatever she did with the power. And we're seeing the kind of things that elevating cognitively and morally incompetent people to power leads to. Among many, we now have a critical, life threatening baby formula shortage -- in the U.S.A.!!! This could not happen if voters did their job even a little better, and worse is not an option.