Official campaign season has revealed what many candidates look like, sound like, are like, with their game faces on. And contrary to what their spin doctors, PR machinery, speech writers want us to imagine, we can see right through it.

Of course our class biases are interwoven into how we criticize or praise our candidates, and I’ve stopped myself countless times in mid-judgment, realizing that how we value one thing over the other is not only born of this class, but also of how media and the bandwagon has conditioned us into believing one thing to be more important than another. Every time we say that corruption is our deal breaker, instead of incompetence for example; or when we say the lack of experience is our deal breaker, instead of human rights violations. Such is the curse of choosing among evils.

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