#okay slight exaggeration. afaik other countries subsidize tv ads but if they do anything else idk about it

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personally i think us politicians shouldnt need to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to fund their own campaign to even have a shot at having a seat in the capitol. i think that perhaps having a barrier that requires ludicrous amounts of money to even be a viable candidate is a shitty system, especially when the people most likely to already have that kind of money tend to lean very hard to the right in the first place. perhaps political campaigns should be subsidized by the government in order to ensure politicians both have time to do their job and all have a fair shot at getting their position regardless of social strata, like in most other countries that are not the United States.