Progressive Politics

Wish I knew what it was like to believe a presidential candidate I plan to vote for tho.

Do you have specific things in mind or examples of this?

Like for example, Obama talked about Universal Healthcare and making affordable healthcare a "right". I believed him and was super bummed about that and blame him for not being realistic and over-promising, but I also appreciate that the level of suckage was demonstrably less overall than with Bush. Or Trump. Many good things came to fruition.

And what I learned most of all from the Obama experience was that a candidate can be sincere in wanting something but unable to make it happen. IOW, there are serious limits on presidential power (which is good) and mid-term and local elections are in many ways far more important. I also learned that he should have appointed more federal judges and I'm glad that Biden did.