Obama seems to me to be the last inspiring candidate to lead a party in either the US, Canada and the UK.
Looking around at not just the leaders of our countries, but the candidates to potentially lead the countries, there is nothing.
I can’t recall any point in my lifetime where there has been such an absence of vision that I could either get behind or oppose. There is just nothing other than uninspiring mediocrity (at best) leading all the major parties.
I find myself in the UK, wanting Keir Starmer elected because he’s mediocre and I’m thinking, after the ####show of the past 13 years, “that’ll do”, but I have no hope or any faith that he is capable of solving the malaise here.
And I can’t think of anyone in Canada or the US that will provide inspiration, hope, or a vision and there seems to be no one in the pipeline either.
I find it all concerning, and a major weakness that could provide a potential threat to western democracy.
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