Happy Halloween. Let's talk about something really scary: elections in the United States and Japan.
I say scary because these countries are the No. 1 and No. 3 largest economies in the world, not to mention representative democracies considered too big to fail. Yet the way things are going is truly frightening.
Let's start with election campaigns in the U.S., since they are probably very familiar and fresh to readers:
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