• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    A “majority” of Americans in a heavily gerrymandered system with extreme voter disenfranchisement and removing POC folks from at voter roles voted for him. Only 65% of folks with voting rights voted in the election. That’s around 50 million who didn’t vote because of systemic pressure or disenfranchisement or both. The people who did elect him total around 72 million in a country of around 250 million who can vote. They aren’t a majority.

    The system is shambles and blaming the voters is misguided. It is programmed against the people and towards the needs of the wealthy.

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      4 hours ago

      This is because many reasons, you see the weather wasn’t particularly good that day, and most Americans have accepte3d the Republicans gerrymandering the vote for decades without repercussions. So it is not the Americans fault that the American system sucks, it’s the Canadians I tell you, the Canadians are ruining America.

      By god I’m so tired of those American apologists, saying it isn’t a majority when the election result was accepted by a VAST majority. And 100% for sure there was not a majority of voters that voted against him. And even if there were, it wouldn’t change that insanity id part of American society today. This includes lack of healthcare for all, and instead having a slavery like healthcare paid by employer system. Also lack of gun control, taking away food stamps from the poor and hundreds of such issues where American society is designed to work in a sociopathic way against the poor and the sick and minorities.
      American society is sick, and that goes way way beyond gerrymandering. And ultimately the American voters are the ones responsible for the system.
      So Absolutely the American voters are to blame. And that even includes Americans in the democratic party that keeps the democrats a wall street party before anything else.

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      11 hours ago

      You’re not giving any credit to the apathetic fucks who didn’t vote and the dingleberries who had to do a purity test even though it was clearly that Trump was going to go completely fascist with project 2025. Don’t let those people off the hook.

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      11 hours ago

      Nah. Americans love this shit. Most guns in the world and you just use them to shoot kids instead of bad guys.

      Trump is just distilled America.

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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        11 hours ago

        I’ll go you one further. My vote in my state does absolutely nothing because of the electoral college, gerrymandering, and disenfranchisement. So many many votes against the RNC essentially go into a void. We need to stop blaming voters since it will only further exacerbate disenfranchisement.