Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "BIDEN OR TRUMP: WHOEVER WINS, WE LOSE" video.

  1. 0:40 "Apparently, these are the best of the best America can find". No, that is a misunderstanding of democracy. They are the two people American voters have chosen. Each voter may have their own standards for why they choose the candidate they do. It's not about 'the best', but about who The People want to lead them. Then later, the winner is free to choose 'the best of the best' to help him administer the government. That's what we have experts for. No leader, American or otherwise, knows everything.
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  2.  @canto_v12  Nowadays, most candidates get the majority of their campaign funds from small, individual donors, but of course, political organizations can contribute, too. Nevertheless, there are numerous examples of candidates losing to others who had less money to play with. In addition, people like Bernie Sanders got hardly any corporate donations, and he made it very far. It is legitimate to critique the American campaign system, but it should be done rationally, and not simply be pronounced as some kind of conspiracy. If anything, in countries where the next leader is chosen by the previous leaders without public input, the system is much closer to the definition of a conspiracy: A few people getting together with a plan to decide the next leader.
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  3. The victim mentality is strong.
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