>>2881314i can only speak for myself and my own ability to read a person and be a judge of human character, i can't tell other people who to trust and not to trust. i personally don't think any democratic or republican candidate has ever been allied with the american people at large, our entire society and all of its institutions are designed in such a way to prevent those kinds of people from ever rising to positions of importance.
i remember a long time i ago i listened to an episode of the marc maron podcast where he interviewed barack obama and it kind of made me understand the situation in a way that i've never really been able to forget. the longer i listened to him talk the more i became aware of two things, one being that he talks about the common american people the exact same way he talks about his own daughters, where he sees them as helpless confused children and himself as a loving but firm parent, and the other being that when he says things that are just blatantly false or misleading or downright callous, like defending us drone attacks in the middle east as a necessary national security measure, he isn't being dishonest; he is being completely sincere and he genuinely believes these things.
people tend to have this conception of politicians as being these crafty scheming pathological liars, but the truth is actually a lot worse than that. the real painful truth is that they aren't lying and that they are completely and utterly brainwashed, indoctrinated to the point where they are genuinely insane and have no connection to reality at all. the school system, the military, big business, corporate journalism, the justice system, local politics, national politics, all of these hierarchical institutions are designed to groom and filter people from early childhood onward, indoctrinating them to think a certain way and weeding out the ones who cannot or will not get with the program, so by the time you get to the top you're not really dealing with human beings who are capable of critical thinking or perceiving reality anymore, you're dealing with manufactured products that come from a machine.