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Something that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cows (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The hard fact is that what the population votes for is what the population gets.

It really isn't, study after study has shown that popularity has basically no effect on policy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

...the candidate the population votes for. Did you need that to say "who"?