Modern_medicine_isnt comments on Mamdani updates Reagan's "nine most terrifying words" with nine more terrifying words: "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Idolize the actions, not the person. No one is perfect. And people who have the skills to win elections are much more often "flawed". If the flaw ends up being something really bad and gets out, all the progress will be for naught. But if we idolize the actions, they can be separated from the person if need be.

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[–] yes_this_time@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Very true, we are all flawed humans.

It would do us good to examine why democratically elected positions don't often attract the right people, I suspect some mix the right people are often too busy, don't want to deal with the harassment, can't afford it. And that last point is critical, greed as a character flaw skews to the wealthy.

Then there is marketing/charisma angle, even if you objectively have the best person in hand... they still need to be elected, which is tougher to solve

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