• profdc9@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It’s a great line, but it’s also kind of tragic that these kind of soundbites are how we decide who is commander and chief of the armed forces.

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      6 days ago

      There’s a lot more to deciding the president than this… this was just cathartic.

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      6 days ago

      Nixon lost the 1960 election to Kennedy in part due to how he looked during the first televised debate.

      while I agree with you and would love to have policy be the main driver of people’s decisions, elections are unfortunately more about likability than policy for most voters.