Something Americans aren't taught in Civics 101

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6. Agreed. Politicians can be problematic in any system.

I tend toward anarchism, and withdraw my support from politics in general by not voting and advocating against voting. As a result I had to withdraw from DU during the primaries and election.

On the other hand, my background is solid socialism going back to to the early 1930s when my grandparents helped found the CCF in Manitoba. But while I have a strongly progressive heart, I have lost all faith in politics as a social institution. Harper, Trudeau, Trump and all the other national leadership shenanigans in the rest of the world aren't causing me to change my mind...