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A democracy, if we can keep it.
Half the voting population doesn’t want to keep it.
That's the fallacy ..... it was never a democracy
How do you define democracy?
It's arguably more than that. A lot of the people who voted Democrat don't want democracy either, they just want their neoliberals to be the ones fucking them instead of the loud crazies.
America rn is the result of over four decades of divisive propoganda efforts coming to fruition. Entire generations have grown up believing the wealthy elites of our nation are untouchable. We've been a plutocracy for at least a decade now, the mask has just fallen off.
Well that's just an insane way to think about it
Half your voting population isn't nearly representative of even 20% of the actual population. Get more people to vote.
No, it was not half of voting population; go and research how US voting “works”
Where do you think I’m from? More than half the people who got off their ass and went and voted, voted for this self declared dictator. I never said half the country.
All they have to keep them comfort is their pedanticism.
No, he ended up below 50%. He had the plurality though. If you include RFK Jr. votes with Trump (which some people do for some reason) it'd be over half, but I wouldn't. People voting for him explicitly weren't voting for Trump.
Please, forgive me for not googling, it would appear he only got 49.8% of the popular, not the 50% I so callously pulled from my butt.
Half the people meaning half of the absolute number of people who went voting, which is not true
Since each state votes for their members of the Electoral College, it could happen that, if you count each person who voted directly, you get no way near 50% voting for the president that gets elected
This voting system is stupid, the idea of a law to pardon people as president is even more stupid.
yes that’s possible, thanks for the civics lesson. It’s not what I was talking about.
OK
closer to a 1/3rd not a 1/2 but yeah
2/3rds actually. The people who didn't vote also don't care about keeping it.