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Has the election became a contest of taking everything out of context?
among other things, yes.
i find it disappointing. the current election should be a debate about where we have been and where we want to go. has trickle-down delivered, and is it our best path forward? what are we going to run our cars on when oil production drops? is it America's proper role to be the immune system of the world, and, if so, how do we pay for that? what does an increasingly post-labor economy look like, and how will consumers continue to spend in such an economy?
all are incredibly important debates that we should be having right now. instead, we get negative ads and out of context quotes.
so, does that disappoint me? yes. however, i will say that campaigns do this because it gets votes. if we don't like it, we'll have to stop voting for it.