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I highly doubt the left will do anything uncivil. How can they win back the country? Is it too late?

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Democracy is just the tyranny of the majority.

I think that most of the Americans want this, even if people on the outside do not understand. So in that sense they are right now winning back their country, as confusing as it might sound.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Normally in Democracy the majority or popular vote wins, however due to the electoral college America has, it doesnt necessarily mean the majority voted for the winner. This was the case for Bush, and some other moments in the past.

[–] [email protected] 182 points 1 week ago (3 children)

FYI: it looks like Trump is going to win the popular vote on this one as well.

[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 week ago (11 children)

How in the fuck.

Like what drives a majority of Americans to vote for a demented toddler. It's insane.

As a kid I always wondered how on Earth did Hitler ever make anyone follow himself, how did those people not realise. Turns out a majority of people are just fucking morons.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yep and the slow gutting of the education system isn't making it any better.

You have an entire generation coming of voting age who are rabid Trump supporters. They don't care about policies or democracy or public institutions. They don't care about healthcare, social securities, or the stability of the economy.

They don't care about any of the things that have been built up through generations. They lack critical thinking ability.

The recipe works. If you make dumb kids they will vote for dumb people. It works so well that part of the future plan for a trump presidency is to get rid of the department of education. Solidifying the Republican party indefinitely.

Without critical thinking and with mass media it's so easy to say every problem that people deal with is because the "other side" made it so. Even if the other side has been doing everything possible to achieve the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Americans aren't special. They're just as vulnerable to fascism as anybody else.

The MAGATs might as well be wearing brownshirts and saluting like Mussolini.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Blaming young people is up their with blaming immigrants and "gays" ect for [insert topic]. I would be very surprised if this was the case.

I think it's a little more nuanced.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They don't blame young people. They blame lack of education.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I used to think Ukrainian politicians were fucking clowns. I guess we got outclowned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For all practical purposes, about 30% of people are unfeeling morons - basically psychopaths. That’s the number that consistently opposes abortion, for instance. Add to that all the dumbasses who don’t know any better (the undecideds on any extremely obvious moral issue), et voila. That’s how you get slavery, nationalism, genocide, theocracy, you name it.

Unless people are willing to screen for psychopathy and remove it from the gene pool, the human species will keep fucking around until it finds out. Might be nuclear apocalypse or environmental collapse, but at this rate it’s inevitable.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we please not start arguing in favor of eugenics?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The rise of the NSDAP has been studied quite a bit. Also, the psychological aspects are really interesting. Basically normal people can make all of this possible as long as the conditions are just right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Well they're making plenty more of that to go around

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Americans voted in Reagan twice. They also elected Bush twice. This is not surprising.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

There are many leftists and minorities that have "voted strategically" time and time and time again only for things to get worse and worse.

This kind of disenfranchisement leads to apathy and low turnout.

We are told from a young age that our vote matters, and then when we are older we are told you can only vote for red fascist or blue fascist and many choose not to participate.

There are more who did not vote than who voted for Trump. This is not what the majority wants, but with the system as it is, it is not possible for the majority to voice what they actually genuinely want and have a chance to get it.

The votes do not have to be rigged at the ballot box for voting as a whole system to be rigged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Non mandatory voting wouldnt help, being that its more susceptible to eroding a merit process from campaigns of fear or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's the low turn out. Too many of us are nonparticipants

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And I was so loving Lina Khan's FTC, ~~asking~~ among other things...

Edit: autocorrect

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Harris has done worse than Biden in every county in America.

Not every state. Every county.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Perhaps these two factors contributed to this:

  1. Harris is a woman and maybe some Americans just don't want a female president
  2. Harris maybe leaned too hard on celebrity endorsements, at a time when Americans are feeling worse-off financially, which perhaps made her seem out of touch to middle America
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whether it's 48 or 52 % is an immaterial difference. Every other American who voted, voted for Trump. The rest don't seem to care either way. He has very broad popular assent and is as popular as Harris give or take a margin of error.

Everyone is lasered-focused on the EC because it makes all the difference for the practicalities, but if one is to make a broad judgement of whether Trump won fair and square the answer is "yeah, mostly". Further proof is the fact that the House is probably going to be his as well.

Americans now bear the collective responsibility for the horrors of the next 4(+?) years. Do not make the mistake of blaming the popular will of outright fascism on institutional failures, because institutions didn't force half of Americans to vote for the fascist, again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I'll wait 72 hours before settling with it, in case any shenanigans were involved. I expect it's legitimate, but I want that window open if it's needed.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump is winning the popular vote by a pretty decent margin. The electoral college isn't the issue here.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They haven't finished counting that's why. Rural areas are faster to count and skew conservative.

A republican hasn't won the popular vote in 20 years. Trump is projected to win but like last time he'll lose the popular vote and win by virtue of the electoral college.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All the projections I'm seeing him show him almost certainly winning the popular vote. There's a gap of 6 million votes and almost every state is over 90% reported in. That gap is going to likely shrink a bit, but unfortunately it almost certainly won't be enough for him to even lose the popular vote.

Lets face it, we're (assuming you're american) apparently just a country of facists. It looks like GOP is going to have majority in both houses too so here comes project 2025 I guess.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Sorry bud, not a yank. You have my sympathies though.

If it turns out that he does indeed win the popular vote then yeah I'm sorry for your loss. A nest of at least 50% fascists or fascist enablers.

Heart aches for those that did their civic duty and yet have to suffer the repercussions :(

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It looks like turnout is way down compared to last election. Trump is pulling about the same amount he did last time ( maybe a few million down, but there are still results to get). Harris is currently down 15M from where Biden was.

Trump's support is no larger than it was last time. Harris' supporters just didn't show up

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Harris’ supporters just didn’t show up

Anyone who didn't show up is not a Harris supporter.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

But Trump won the popular vote this time

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No, there is a concerted effort by conservatives to use voter suppression to subvert the will of the majority in the US.

conservatives are clawing back the country right now by hook and by crook.

can't go on forever, but I don't know which is going to last longer: the country or the aging frightened conservatives willing to subvert democracy to hang on to control.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think that most of the Americans want this

Maybe, but none of the facts directly support this.

There have been large campaigns to disenfranchise several types of voters for decades in the country. The Electoral College was designed to be unfair to appease Slave states. Voter turnout is abysmal, only about 35% of eligible citizens vote. Out of those turnout is usually around the same percentage. The highest turnout recently was 2020 only because mail in voting was expanded so dramatically, and even then it was only 67% of registered voters, so it was still only 67% of that original 37% of eligible voters. So with the highest recent turnout, we're looking at about 25% of eligible citizens actually voting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe that the 67% number for the 2020 election is of eligible voters and not registered voters. While turnout is low, it's not 25% low.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It was ~67% of eligible voters that were registered to vote. Over 94% of registered voters actually voted.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

That's what the Germans thought in 1933

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

vote against this and save us all from this idiocy.

Nope. There was just more people lined up to vote for more idiocy. We failed the world. I’d say I’m sorry, but I don’t think that’ll help. This is America.

America needs to focus on decentralizing power. That way, when the other side wins, they can't do much damage. Biggest problem America faces is too much centralized control.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Democracy really is the worst form of government, just not as bad as all the others...

Unfortunately in such polarized times like now, even though majority wants this, the ammount of people for which this is unacceptable is only slightly less than "the majority". And besides, I believe a big part of "the majority" is just gullible enough to be persuaded they want this while it actually goes against their interests

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Something can not be the worst and just not as bad as the others.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's a famous quote. The contradiction is intentional. It means democracy has a lot of problems and often looks terrible. However when you step back and consider the alternatives they are worse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Take it up with Winston Churchil - I was just paraphrasing his quote.

The point is democracy is terrible, but we don't have anything better.

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