So, Good evening. It's Wednesday, March 15th. Welcome to a new episode of

System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern exclusively

here on rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, American politics often seems like one continuous loop of elections and campaigns.

Some states have just completed the voting total for the 2022 midterms and that we already

have a spate of politicians who have formally announced or are strongly insinuating that they

intend to run for president in 2024 and are even actively campaigning for an election that

is still one year and eight months away. This is not the normal state of affairs.

Other countries have tightly regimented election

cycles where all explicit and formal campaigning

is banned until a few months before the election, though how much difference

that really makes and practices in dispute where all the known candidates go right up to

the line in campaigning for just as long as the American candidates do.

Though, the US is somewhat unique in that we seem to be in a state of permanent campaign mode.

The dominance of punditry and horse race journalism, the incessant and unbelievably boring chatter

about who is leading polls and who is and is not a viable candidate, often drown out seemingly

by design the most substantive debates that we ought to be having.

While this is undoubtedly annoying, especially if your work requires paying attention to all

of this, it can have a positive effect in stimulating

meaningful political debates, providing one has candidates who are offering new

worthwhile substantive and thought through ideas that advance and elevate political thought and encourage

us to think and reason from first principles.

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