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Nobody's pretending; Trump was only considered a legitimate presidential candidate when other GOP representatives from various states - who were elected in through local government elections - endorsed him. Were they influenced by 3rd parties looking to benefit from having a corrupt president in office? Absolutely, yes. But they only had that foothold because the local (elected!) representatives were interested in such deals. Kamala rose through the ranks to presidential candidate naturally, going through district and attorney general positions before heading to senate, all of which were elections that the people of California voted for (not many, because they were mostly-ignored local elections, but that's the point I'm trying to make here - VOTE!!). If people wanted to stop her, that's where they would have had the power to do it.

Our presidential candidates didn't pop into existence a few years ago, they were either elected themselves in local government elections before heading to presidential candidacy, or were elevated to presidential candidacy status by such locally-elected politicians. Corruption doesn't start at the presidency, it starts with an individual who works their way up from the bottom to seize more and more power, or in Trump's case, payments and promises made to such individuals to essentially "cut in line." Either way, the reason they weren't stopped is because people weren't paying enough attention to ensure local representatives had their country's best interests in mind.

We flush out corruption at the same source that it starts - at the local election level, preventing power-hungry hopeful politicians from starting their career in the first place. THAT is the work that people are advocating for us to pay better attention to between the presidential elections. THAT is what we would be able to do with the time that Kamala would buy us, but Trump wouldn't. THAT is how we fix this country without losing most of the population in a civil war. If you agree that the presidential candidates don't have your best interests in mind, then pay better attention to the elections of the local representatives that gave them that power, and vote for one you think would make a better choice.