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[SEQ RERUN] Applause Lights
Avicenna14y40

Almost every political speech today has an abundance of these applause lights. It's quite incredible when listening to a state of union speech, for example, the number of times you hear the words "freedom", "democratic", "the American people", etc, etc. The extensive use of these applause lights may be the reason why the approval rating graphs of American presidents almost always have a negative slope; they truly have nothing to offer when it comes to substance and actual problem solving. All democracy has come to today is a contest between who can conjure the most touching applause lights (or rather fundraise the most money to promote those applause lights).

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