One of the two most famous politicians in the world is largely defined by their capacity for anger and arrogance. The other is defined by their strength and confidence. Which is which? The answer there probably depends on who you ask. More specifically, it depends on which of the two candidates you more closely relate with.
I see the current presidential candidates as polar opposites, each the culmination of two separate parallel paths our society has taken in the past 20 years. On one hand, you have the first woman candidate for the president of the United States. On the other, you have the first presidential candidate since the dawn of modern politics who has never held an elected office in his lifetime. One is a lifetime feminist, working to influence the powers that be to meet that philosophy's ends. The other is a lifetime businessman, working at every turn to amass as much power and wealth for himself as possible, all for no greater purpose beyond self-fulfillment.
Hillary Clinton made it to where she is today thanks to society's continued march to understanding that women are just as worthy of stardom, leadership, and responsibility as men. Conversely, Donald Trump could not have made it this far if it weren't for popular culture's long-building fascination and glorification of stories about powerful men behaving like sociopaths. From one angle, the conflict between these two forces looks like a stern, no-fun Grandma scolding a precocious, rascally bad boy for his "locker room talk." From another angle, it looks like an atrocious, entitled narcissist is threatening to put a woman in jail because she dared to stand up to him and his endless pursuit for power.
The only thing these two perspectives have in common is they allow little to no room for any sort of collaboration between the players at hand. Seeing this all play out in 90 minutes of television gave me sad flashbacks to what it's been like to write for a video game blog for the past two or so years.
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