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This is really disturbing, propagandistic, and manipulative junk. Tokenization of international students to support illusions of American exceptionalism and systemic functioning/suggest the U.S. is some emulable democracy is a huge part of the problem. The understanding of the U.S. system your article reveals is very superficial. If you want to understand the real state of election integrity in the U.S., you need to look to Greg Palast who broke the story of Bush stealing the election from Gore and has focuses on U.S. election tampering ever since. He has a new documentary called “Vigilantes Inc.” and a book called The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. I know you're young and new to journalism, but you've got to do better due diligence and avoid causing harm by reinforcing biases and misconceptions. The U.S. is in very, very serious trouble, and that's what people need to know, not being told “everything is fine.” Foreign dissidents are routinely elevated by corrupt individuals in the U.S. in order to perpetuate myths of American exceptionalism because advocating foreign human rights is a great way to pretend we have them here and distract from the many serious problems. Don't be a beard for a misbehaving oligarchy.

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