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 Imagine working at either campaign and having to find ways to sell their terrible candidate to an electorate that just want a better life. Worst job ever. 
 why can't a candidate give people a better life? isn't that in theory what they should be advertising about the candidates? 
 To me the pitch is quite simple, but it requires both platforms to give up on their life long beliefs and promises, which is never going to happen.  
 Impossible. The State is no different from a criminal organization. It only extracts (taxes) from people. 
 The Rogan Vance interview is doing a pretty good job for me. 
 Much better than going to battlefield with 🏹 and swords ⚔️ ..  not that old if you scale it on history of mankind ! .. 

We are a lot better and actually Trump is brand new experience.. never before :-) 
 If people want a better life, they need to completely ignore politics and take matters into their own hands. 
 With a disenfranchised, pliable population like that, easiest job ever. 
 Their two party system needs to go.  
 This would be the honest pitch:  "Donate your hard earned money to us. We will take it and spend it on propagandizing you. And if we win, you'll have the same shitty conditions as always." 
 Disagree. I'd love to be a campaign manager and just go crazy with creative campaign events. Seeing the sparks of brilliance in Trump's campaign with the McDonald's or garbage truck is great but I'd go so much further. 

Not even gonna vote for either but I would love to have fun and go crazy on such a task. I genuinely think I could win the election from either side with a 100 EC lead if I had full control over their campaign.