Absurd? Lol you should go outside pal. Most politicians in real life are sociopath. The differences between this manga and real life is that IRL politicians are smart enough to be discreet.
hard disagree {long ass SPOILER with just a few examples in recent decades for context}
politicians aren't smart enough to be discreet
they are half good bullshitters
their press secretaries are asked 1 meaningful question out of every 30 questions
and those 29 meaningless questions are used to deflect from having to fully answer that 1 question
the populace not only looks into nothing, they suffer from short term memory loss so even when they're spoon-fed vital information they suspect nothing at crucial times as well.
Pentagon was caught misplacing over 20% of its budget a day before 9/11, calls to defund the Pentagon were rising
then 9/11... Pentagon got a raise every presidential term since then and they continue to fail audits on a much larger scale
-imagine if your company failed every audit for 20 years... but no money for your healthcare or small businesses
Government/ MSM lied about Muslim terror and Israel lied before Congress about WMDs, fired dissenters,
both resulting wars led to millions dead and displaced
-still we blindly believe their framing RE: important foreign policy affairs
-basically when they tell us who our next enemies are and who we ought to give our tax dollars to.
Obama got out and went straight to do 1hr speeches for Wallstreet for 500k each, got a Mansion too, normal president things..
no one paid attention and the few that did forgot about it by 2020 when Obama was shuckin n jivin for (Pedo Pe-) Uncle Joe
-still, there are echoes of Michelle Obama 2024 and Barack Obama gets to assume the position "kingmaker"
DNC was sued in court in 2017 iirc over rigging elections (yknow that supposed right wing conspiracy)
DNC lawyers in court argued the DNC is a private corporation and essentially elections are for show...
-still people argue 2024 is about "saving democracy"
Pelosi insider stock trading also widely reported and memed,
-but we have to keep her in her lucrative "civil service" job because she's a "master legislator"
Clinton's still beloved despite Epstein flight records
Bush is now just a nice old man that loves art, lets just forget millions dead and thousands tortu- "perturbed by enhanced interrogation"
-seen clips of Americans shouting down Veterans protesting Bush
LGBTQ community hated Fauci (iirc Dallas Buyers Club movie was basically about him)
-in come a certain pandemic and everyone forgot this man's history and he becomes a representative of science and truth
//iirc he also got into a lot of trouble during the Obama admin, won't say more on it, this is already grossly long as is
politician also aren't sociopaths either
this word gets abused way too often...
this is what our society reproduces, this is what our society rewards.
politicians don't see the families their policies harm
nor the civilians hundreds of thousands of miles away who die to our drone strikes (90% civilian death rate since Obama btw)
worst case scenario they leave office and become a lobbyist or get a show on Netflix or maybe become a regular contributor on mainstream Media
you work against the system in place, you get fired, your college/ med degree you went into debt to get now means nothing
worst case mainstream media also smears you and retracts the smears 3 years after everyone cares and already formed opinions about you
