Tessa Schlesinger
2 min readAug 24, 2024

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Very easy when you listen to both candidates speaking and follow both sides of the story on Threads and X. On the one side, Trump is a horrific monster and on the other side Dems are responsible for every sin on earth.

If you aren't particularly interested in politics, and you don't follow the news, and you look at both, it could be confusing.

I just had someone tell me that climate change is a non existent theory that will only happen in 80 years.

I had another tell me that she had lost all respect for me because I said Trump's speech making had improved and I didn't think Harris was any good. I pointed out there were no good candidates.

To anyone reading only to see who to vote for, that looks like a pump for Trump. I, of course, expect my readers to read the room, to understand that there are undecided voters, that they are caufht between the issues that Trump raises and the issues that Harris raises.

If I dudn't know anything about the history of each candidate, who would I vote for?

I could be one of those cynical Americans, except, of course, I am not American and therefore unable to vote.

I look at which candidate for other issues - who is good for climate change, who is good for Israel, and who is not affected by ideology and will therefore put the world iin peril.

The answer is that Trump will further screw the world up in terms of climate change, and Harris won't. The other two points, I have no idea...

So Harris wins, but I wish there were a better candidate.

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