it’s funny that the idea of a politician having to appeal to their voterbase has been completely lost in america. like the biggest proponents of our democracy act with complete acknowledgment of the incapability of the american people to meaningfully influence our president-elects. they’re fucking realists. even they don’t actually believe in the usamerican democratic project they’re just yelling at you to poke its corpse with a stick until it twitches in the direction you want