> The point is that they aren’t election-specific issues.

According to you and the mainstream media, yes, but not the voters. The point is that if you don’t want other countries to tell us how much we suck, we can maybe stop sucking. And our own propaganda machine is doing a great job of getting in the way of that, all the way down to the kids on reddit telling you you’re a bad person if you don’t vote a certain way.

I won’t be voting for the incumbent for reasons that are supposedly not “election issues”.