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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 week agoI think it was the votes of less than a third of eligible voters that made Trump 2.0 a reality, roughly another third just behind it, with the remainder not bothering to vote at all. I would say the often fantasized silent majority is actually not pro Trump.
That means that a third didn’t bother, though. The exact reason is up to debate, but it doesn’t say any good things about them or the political system.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 week ago
I agree. I didn’t mean to imply all of the remainder would be pro just one of the candidates. My guess is that it’s still enough to make up a silent majority. Which sounds great but no one can prove anyways.
I’m inclined to give American voters a limited raincheck on not bothering to show up. Voting is often a booklet of ballots on various issues and elections for office. It takes forever to fill it in. That explains the long, slow-moving lines outside pulling stations, much rarer occurrences in other democracies. And that’s only the people who are able to come on a workday (and didn’t have the foresight or were unable to get mail-ins). That’s after a registration process that can have Kafkaesque features in many states. So I would forgive the single mother who didn’t have time to do this between working her two low paid jobs. It’s part of a subtle but deliberate disenfranchisement. We’ll add that one to the list of grievances as well.
Condiment2085@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It’s insane to me that some people don’t have this day off.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 week ago
That’s for red states, they purposely voter suppression blue areas, in blue states you don’t have voting problems, or any suppression. One of things is red state purging voters and rigging the machines
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 week ago
Even blue states vote on a working day and can have ridiculously long lines due to the booklet voters are asked to fill in. That’s already bad from my POV. All the other shenanigans are extra, on top of that.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 week ago
Yeah, that’s fair. They certainly don’t make it easy to vote in USA, which is deliberate to some extent. Easy to forget (like I just did).