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Everyone is, exactly. His pledge is a nice start, but doesn’t go far enough. Anyway, just warning those that are getting their hopes up. He’s not your saviour.

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No politician should ever be viewed as such. And I suspect we'll hear more pledges like this, since it's clearly very popular, but when further digging is done some anomalies will surface as you pointed out. When an entire political movement rises up from this pledge alone, it will be much more believable but it's nice to see even a tiny spark of change on this front.

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It is indubitably compelling theatre. And I agree that it will be parroted the most cynical of demagogues in our respective governments. However, I will only be invigorated once such statements become a clarion call for the hoi polloi. May the gods grant us this.

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Amen.

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