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You may be, but clearly more than half of you are not 🤷♂️
Have you checked the voter turnout? Because I didn't but it's traditionally low in the US for different reasons. And this doesn't take into account people not allowed to vote. I don't live in a utopia either but the US is especially undemocratic by design
Surprisingly this was one of the most active elections since 1900. Others being JFK and 2020.
Nonetheless, turnout in 2024 was still high by modern standards. The 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon (63.8 percent) is the only other election in the last 112 years to exceed 63 percent voter turnout.
I wasn't talking about this vote compared to other US elections but about the US voting system compared to other nations. 63.9% is still low for international standards. The comment above me said "half of you did", turns out it's closer to a third. And I'm not blaming the third that stayed at home, I'm blaming the system for shying them away.
I'm absolutely blaming the third that did not vote. When you're in a car that is barreling towards a cliff, the only acceptable choice is to hit the brakes. Not doing anything is just as bad as pressing the gas pedal.
It's about half as bad. Still unbelievably terrible though, and equally indefensible
I blame them too. They could have voted. It's not that hard.
How many eligible voters chose not to out of apathy or other factors within their control?
Voters that chose to stay home are functionally the same as Trump supporters. They chose this.
Trump didn't even get half of votes, much less half of the population. The vast majority of Americans aren't Trump supporters. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans don't vote.
I consider those who didn't vote to be just as bad as Trump supporter
Bingo. Yes, the system is rigged against minorities, but I wager there's far more other people who easily could have voted but didn't.
Yeah for sure. I respect that Republicans have made it difficult to vote in some areas but when Trump and Project 2025 are on the line, I really don't care. If you didn't jump through every possible hoop to vote against Trump then you may as well have voted for him in my eyes
He got more than half the votes, unfortunately.
He got less than 50%
Source? Here's one of mine:
Note the popular vote section.
49.8% is less than 50%... I used AP. I genuinely don't understand your meaning.
I meant he got the most, but yeah you're right that's not over half of the total votes
I think they assume the votes for the two should add to 100%?