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End the material conditions that incentivise this behavior and it will disappear. If politicians are required to pander to voters instead of ~~bribes~~ political donations sanity might return to us.
They are required to pander to voters. That's why Biden disappeared no matter how much he wanted to GenocideJoe2024.
It's just that most voters care more about their candidate being old than them being complicit in Genocide.
Most voters care about their candidate's ability to be elected.