• Charlxmagne@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That’s the issue with the FPTP voting system, it always eventually leads to a 2-party state like the US and the majority of the population votes for someone other than the winning party.

    This happens in literally every country with the same voting system as the US.

  • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    How many of those who didn’t vote were from the states where Democrats won?

    How many were from swing states?

    How many were from Red states?

    In an electoral college based election these nuances matter.

  • Lumbardo@reddthat.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I would say that the Republicans winning the popular vote made it a pretty decisive victory.

  • Gladaed@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Turnout is low when votes don’t matter and voters get suppressed when their vote does matter. This is working as designed.

  • DelusionalCyberDuck@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Let’s be honest here, both parties are full of shit. During Biden term 3500 students had their visa revoked due to anti Zionist protests, let alone canary mission bullshit.

    And do not forget about insider trading and that both parties are funded by private companies

  • VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s something to keep in mind.

    Don’t alienate those 36.32%. I’m sure some of us have strong feelings about their choices, but at the end of the day they outnumber Democrats and Republicans each by quite a bit. If you want to see change you are going to have to convince some of them to join you. This goes for elections and this goes for revolutions.

  • splonglo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    American democracy and freedom are fucked. But I don’t blame those 36% of non-voters. These people were INSPIRED to give up on politics.

    It’s the media environment. Political coverage fucking sucks by design. Left populism is too interesting to be given air time, too much of a threat to the people who fund the parties and own the media. Politics used to be interesting. Politicians used to say things, now they just run out the clock with white noise.

  • palencharizard@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is misleading.

    According to those stats, the majority of people voted for someone other than Harris as well.

    The real takeaway here is large percentage of people that don’t vote.