U.S politics kinda confuse me I am not gonna lie. It is like common knowledge now that Trump is probably one of the worst candidates for president out there yet a lot still support him. Is there really no other candidate that can hold up republicans’ belief, ideologies, and values other than Trump himself?
Populists exist everywhere. Bernie Sanders is a populist and got quite close to getting a nomination in 2016. But Trump has the advantage of Republicans deliberately dumbing down their base with FUD since 1980s at least.
none from the candidates running seem to be the best pick. I have heard Americans advocates for just voting for the lesser evil which in the previous election happened to be Biden. Now, lots of people despise Biden for his decisions. I come from a country with a different process of nominating presidency candidates. The presidential candidates are not limited to two only allowing for more options. I can not possibly imagine having to pick only between two people. It is not like you can not vote because if you don’t, the worse candidate may win.
There are primary elections where voters can pick from more than just two candidates. The actual presidential election in November is more similar to the second round of multi-candidate elections in other countries, when none of the candidates get 50%+ in the first round. And it's not like populists can't win in those multi-party elections...
Having said that, the electoral college bullshit is bullshit, and it should not exist in the 21st century. But that's a whole other story.
US is a very powerful country, home to a lot of powerful people and should be treated as such. US has such great influences around the world that a development in the US can for sure improve the lives in different countries as well. Can you imagine the USA led by a competent, decisive, and humble leader?
US is not in the business of improving lives in other countries so I don't think it would work that way regardless of who's the president. Obama bombed the shit out of other countries despite being reasonably "competent, decisive, and humble".
Ideally the US should focus in improving lives of people in the US (not vacuous MAGA nonsense but actual tangible stuff), and other countries should focus on improving themselves, but that requires actual effort so... unlikely.
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