+5
Looking from outside:
1) I think if there's a choice to be made between a pineapple covered with sh*t or Trump, the only decent vote should be on the pineapple.
2) i can't understand how is it possible that in 8 years democrats have only found pineapples covered with sh*t.
I mean, if there was anybody in the world that it was not a total psychopath running against Hillary or Biden, the Dems wouldn't have had a single vote. It's like they are going with the "against Trump anyone should do" line of thought instead of actually finding a good candidate that would win against any rival the GOP chose. And the fact that this is their second try and they still didn't learn from their mistakes after Hillary is mesmerizing.
3) as a non-American, i view this election as something terribly important to the rest of the world (although americans are not exactly known to care for the rest of the world) although I fear the harm is already done. Trump uses a modus operandi that consists in consistently and openly lie so the truth loses value. He may have not invented it but he was the first important politician to use it in such an agressive way. And that gave a weapon to all the proto-fascist parties in the rest of the world. The world is now a worse place than it was before Trump and a lot it's because of him, even if he didn't do it on purpose or even consciously. Europe is filled with new founded far right parties who quote Trump on a daily basis and copy is strategy. Brazil is basically a dictatorship, as is Hungary and even traditionally left wing countries like Portugal, France or even Germany are facing a huge the threat to their democracies.
4) I am always scared when I hear people using the argument "every politician lies, so Trump is not different". I'd say that is exactly that loss of connection with the political class that caused president Trump (which even the more hardcore fans who are not dimwits would agree is not exactly the best president ever) and the like. And that's on the left and democratic right. Politicians became to proud to say I'm sorry, they started to view honesty as a weakness and lost any empathy with the people for whom are they responsible. So because people stopped feeling represented they turned to those who have the attitude of the simple man, sitting on a coffee place and saying all politicians are the same (i don't if that's a thing over there, here it is).
Biden will apparently win, won't do much good, but I hope in 4 years he steps aside and the two parties can actually find decent candidates.