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No it won’t magically fix everything but at least the voters would have no one to blame but themselves for who they elect to office.
You’re assuming that the entire 1% were swing voters. So no. It’s not a huge margin.
Ok average nearly half the country votes, every year. Yeah - that number should be way up - but 75% of those votes wouldn’t matter. That’s the point/problem.
Adding in an edit: downvote it all you want, you know it’s true. Hell, in his last election he DID lose the popular vote. Some democracy. More voters, actual people who took the time and effort to go and actually vote, wanted a different president, and got shown their votes don’t matter unless they live in a swing state.
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Anyways, this is not why Harris lost. It was a landslide and Trump won the popular vote by a huge margin. Americans don’t vote in large numbers on foreign policy - not unless Americans are getting killed. Kamala lost because she kept telling struggling families that the economy is great has a vagina.
Fixed that for you.
Also she didn’t lose the pop vote by a huge margin. 3 million people is literally 1 percent of the population.
If this were a democracy and pop vote mattered, there are probably 10x that number of people who would have actually voted. Then I’d guess she would have won. Look at (greater area) Chicago. 9.5m people. 12 million people total in IL. how many Illinoisans didn’t vote because why does it matter? About 2 million probably.
Disclaimer: That last paragraph was obviously arbitrary.
“Which is exactly what I have written edited my original statement to.” Fixed that for you.
You really didn’t have to throw in the “seem to be intelligent” part but that very conscientious of you.
I’ll go ahead and fix it for you though and be the asshole.
In case you’re wondering why you’re getting down voted, it’s because you didn’t even offer up a valid argument and instead engaged in ad hominem, which is a logical fallacy.
I get that correlation does not necessarily mean causation, but if the richest states are almost all blue and the poorest ones almost all red, that is a very strong correlation and trying to claim it is insignificant only makes you seem the fool.
You seem to be intelligent. Ask yourself why this post made you so upset.
I get what you’re saying and I’m not saying you’re wrong.
I did however giggle at your “illusion of democracy”.
I would normally agree. Four years ago I would have laughed if someone had said it.
Now, I just don’t know. So much has happened that I thought for sure couldn’t possibly happen. Not much would surprise anymore.
He doesn’t want a dictatorship to save himself. He wants a dictatorship because he wants to be the fuckin dictator.
Only good news about this is thanks to Daddy Doge being head of the government Doge means I’ll be rich in '27 when Doge (the currency) hits $2.
Can’t beat em join em
Yeah well what worries me is how badly he took giving up power last time. The only reason he even SOMEWHAT chilled the fuck out is because he knew he had a chance in 2024 to get it back.
If he gives it up this time it’s gone for good.
You don’t think he’s thought of nothing else this entire time? He’s definitely got plans to turn this bitch into a dictatorship. “I need more generals like Hitler had.”
The signs are all there.
Negative. That the democratic candidate had a vagina and breasts is why ten million people sat home.
Well be lucky if there are elections any more after this term. He already said if he’s elected there won’t be another election. You think he’s joking? This mf isn’t giving up power willingly. And with his sycophantic base, you’d be surprised what he can accomplish.
I’m in literal fear for our country.
Won’t argue that.
Personally none of the things this article says surprise me. But unfortunately, the author doesn’t seem to provide any sources for Trumps statements, only the denials of those statements. Idk if people are just scared and want to remain anonymous or what but it loses integrity when people refuse to identify themselves or rather when A reporters article doesn’t have sources like this.
Yeah that’s why I added my edit.
I shouldn’t have led with the “are you high” either. Yesterday was a bad day for me. My apologies to the commenter.
You’re right. Sometimes I can’t help it 😔
You’re not a cynic. You’re an idiot.
You got the two words mixed up at some point.
Hope this helps.
Yeah, yeah you are.