# Wow, these are bad candidates (2016 Presidential race)

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [February 21, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-these-are-bad-candidates-2016-presidential-race/746672 "2016-02-21T05:07:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-these-are-bad-candidates-2016-presidential-race/746672/34 "2016-02-24T08:31:22Z")

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Democracy is such a wonderful system of control since it allows you to blame your neighbor for the actions of the elite. Talk about divide and conquer.

Partisans continue to display an entitled “nice guy” logic when it comes to soliciting votes. It wasn’t Gore or Kerry’s fault they couldn’t beat Dubya, or that Gore couldn’t even win Tennessee. It wasn’t the fault of the system for alienating tens of millions of would be voters. No, it’s those guys who voted Unsafe at Any Speed. It won’t be Hillary’s fault if she crashes and burns against Trump. It’ll be those self righteous Bernie Bros staying home and depressing the vote by pointing out all her flaws. Dems might still be holding two minute hates against Bernie in 2032, as they do for Nader now.

> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> Then you need to get ready for eight years of “Madame President”, without the right to complain about it.

I always loved that one. Blame the actions of the voters on the non-action of the non-voter. How about those who vote for Madame President? Do they have the right to complain about her actions or not?

Out of curiosity, do you support mandatory voting laws?

> [@For Sanders fans who plan on sitting out if Bernie is not nominated](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-sanders-fans-who-plan-on-sitting-out-if-bernie-is-not-nominated/746466/195):
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> How does that translate to voting for someone who sold the services of State to profit her husband’s corporate entity? She made the Foundation a pimp and Foggy Bottom its whore, and all for oil money from Norway, UAE, and Algeria.

That’s standard politics. The point of government at all, in many ways.

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