Left, right, center, liberal. Partisan, non-binary, socio-democratic. Populist, humanist, transhumanist, fundamentalist, radical. It’s all so confusing, and I don’t know if some of the candidates are really real, or just deeply de-aged fakes.

Besides, they all say the same thing, but with different words. Their AIs have been trained to watch each other, and the voting public, and make sure they hit the right notes, without alienating anyone, but still sounding sincere.

What happened to the good old days, when you could go down to the Town Hall and see a real person speak and answer questions? Sure, they lied like crazy to get you to vote for them, but we knew that. And if they lied too much, they wouldn’t get a second term.

And there were always two front-runners to choose from, and maybe an independent or two. Now it’s like South Africa, with 27 political parties, all with a candidate on the ballot! It’s just too much.

Now there’s a flood of information, disinformation, misinformation, opinions, fact-checking, debunked and pre-bunked viral videos. I daren’t look at my feed, it just gives me a headache. Even your summary, AI, is more than I can deal with.

So I’ve come to a conclusion. AI, you know more about this than me. You know what the issues are. You know the candidates, and their flaws. You know the consequences if one or the other should win. What might happen with tax, justice, energy prices, food security, employment, whatever.

So I’ve made a decision, AI. I’m giving you my proxy. I want you to choose for me. Select the candidate that’s best for my future. You know me so well.

Just vote for me already. And let’s get back to the future.

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