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Having a favorite politician seems odd to me

Yup. This right here. It's not a fucking sporting event.
- You're right, it's like WWE, "sports entrainment" - after all, it's all scripted and they have to sell taking a dive while getting paid.
If you have a politician that you rank above others, then by definition, that is your favorite politician.
- I would say preferred, not favorite
- What if they’re my least disliked instead?
Vermin Supreme?
1000% agreed, but fuck if I wasn't literally smitten listening to Lina Khan talk. Attacking corporate hegemony really gets my engine going.
- I get what you're saying, I like the way Jasmine Crockett speaks sometimes.
Many Republicans worshipped Reagan decades after his passing.🤷‍♂️

Why the fuck would anyone have a favorite politician?

I'm fond of Robert La Follette (one of the loudest voices against US entry into WWI), Russ Feingold (only senator to vote against the Patriot Act), and Bernie (who doesn't need an introduction). In all of history, there are some politicians that stand above the rest.
No one has a fav politician
I guess those people mean whom they support in an election
- Yea. The politician whom they most support, otherwise said to be their "most preferred".
  You know what is another way to say that something is an individual's "most preferred"? It would be to say it is the individual's "favorite".
  Thus, people, in fact, do have favorites.
- Suppose I polled the American people’s agreement with the statement “In all of human history there is one politician who is my favorite above all others, and that politician is President Donald Trump.”
  We know that I would get tens of millions of people who genuinely and strongly agree with that. It would be depressingly close to, if not over, a hundred million.
  Or maybe over 100M before the Epstein revolt and below after, lol.
because he smiles like he's part of your family and makes you feel good while standing firm in his beliefs against untold amounts of racism from all sides of the political stage?
ahem. I mean yeah why would they. I'm not in a cult. shut up.
https://youtu.be/Yn-oemgzlEU
- Brother I'll be honest with you, I will read 18 pages of whatever bullshit you want to write to me, but I won't even watch 10 seconds of video.

Not in a cult, but my boy George Santos is flawless

/s

I think he goes by mother shabubu now
I'm disappointed now. I thought we were going to talk about Boy George.

Having a favorite politician is weird, like having a favorite landlord. You should care about the policies and efficacy of your politician, and not really give a fuck beyond that, unless they are a rapist, serial drunk driver, or something like that.

~~favorite~~ least hated?
- I think "most tolerable" would be acceptable.

The people who need to read this cannot read.

I wish that was a joke. There is a direct correlation with the rise of fascism and the decline of American reading scores. Currently nearly a quarter of our adult population is functionally illiterate. Meaning they can identify words, they can send texts, they can reply to messages or read headlines, but are incapable of anything more advanced than that.

We somehow think that there's a sharp line between "cannot read at all" and "can sit down with a paperback and be whisked away to another world" when actually it's a spectrum, like everything else.

Really what this means is that a sizeable set of our population, because they suck at reading, also suck at forming language in their heads, and because of this cannot manage and consider complicated, abstract ideas or reframe thoughts into words that can be analyzed. When you live like this, you tend to just go along with whatever other people are doing and you have intense emotional reactions to everything you see.

This is precisely why it's every government's top priority to cripple the education system. Or if it's already crippled - either cripple it further or just keep it as is, depending on the circumstances.
Personally I live in the EU, so it's not nearly as bad for me as it is for Americans. However, even in Europe most politicians and their parties get elected simply because people don't know better and follow whatever their preferred TV station says.
A lot of Europeans also have difficulties separating personal feelings from politics. You criticize one politician and suddenly everyone is mad, because that means you must be a devoted supporter of their opponent. Sometimes it feels like everyone is brainwashed, because they can only do 'white' or 'black', as if there were no other shades in between.

I was supposed to have a favorite politician? I just assume that anyone who wanted a position of power is probably plotting something

I disagree with Bernie Sanders about eliminating national-states.

There.

I said it.

Cool, well I disagree with this and vehemently believe that progress will never be achieved until we abolish the concept of the state.
i had no idea sanders is THIS based
- No, he wants to keep them.

If you're an American and you can't name... let's say... 10 presidents, then it's probably a bad sign if you even have a favorite politician.

If your sides are left and right they don't both love billionaires.
Take an ideological side, not a political party side.

It's worse than that, there are Republicans that know he's morally reprehensible, might destroy the country, know he is incompetent, and still worship him.

bawt he was sant by gawd!
He even has a red hat !

John Brown died (how could he?!) and left America without guidance until Malcolm X came around...

John Brown was a national treasure

Having a favourite politician is alrrady almost cult like. Yeah, you can like and support some of their ideas but at the end of the day they are a politician.

Not really, no. Cults are a very specific means of control. Almost every organization ever has some minor aspect of the BITE model, but that does not make them cults. Doing so waters down the term and is insulting to people trying to get out or have gotten out.