• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    The problem isn’t that America voted for this. Only 21% of the country voted for Trump.

    The problem is that America didn’t vote at all.

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        14 days ago

        Right, and unless we figure out why people didn’t bother voting this election we will be right back here in another four years. Just like we get right back here every single time there’s low turnout that gets a Republican elected.

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        14 days ago

        Yup. For all who were able but didn’t, a non voter is a trump voter for the next 4 years.

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      14 days ago

      The people who abstained from voting, made their vote. When fascism is on the line, you don’t get to sit out and be absolved. They’ve signed on for everything that is to come.

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      13 days ago

      You can’t count people under the voting age and you need to add the people who didn’t vote because it means they supported whoever got in power. 170m registered voters in 2020 so must be similar. 43% of registered voters voted for him, 40% for Harris, 1% others, that’s 16% who didn’t vote that we can add to Trump’s number… But that’s just registered voters and doesn’t count eligible ones who didn’t register!