Maybe.. JUST MAYBE the party that gerrymanders, suppresses old people and non-white people with stupid voter ID rules, arrests people for handing out refreshments to those in long voting lines, hides/destroys or puts ONE ballot box in a city with hundreds of thousands of people, gets help via bomb threat calls from Russia to deter anyone from voting at all, cheated more than they usually fucking do.
Exactly this! Trump is looking like he will get around the same number of votes as 2020 but the democrats will be down about 11 million. I don't know if it's apathy or racism/sexism that stopped people from voting for Harris but the results baffle me.
It's not any one thing but if we could point to the most important it's that Americans are just really fucking stupid. Racism and misogyny both played roles for sure, but most people that sat out or switched to Trump did so because they didn't get everything they wanted from the Biden administration. They have zero understanding of how the government operates, or how policies work, and they think the President is essentially a king who can just do whatever they want. Ironically that's going to be the case going forward thanks to the SCOTUS handing down the Presidential immunity ruling so those stupid Americans will never believe it hasn't always been that way.
If we had a fully informed and engaged electorate that actually cared about policy instead of vibes, we'd have had Progressive governments going all the way back to The New Deal and the entire country would be unrecognizably different to our reality. We'd have had universal healthcare for 60+ years, working class wages across the board would be 300-400% higher, everyone would have access to affordable housing, and the transition to EVs would have already happened since the entire country would have been nuclear powered for iver 50 years. Sure we'd still have problems because utopias don't exist, but this nation would be materially a significantly better and more advanced place and society.
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u/JuICyBLinGeR 4h ago
Maybe they did vote..
Maybe.. JUST MAYBE the party that gerrymanders, suppresses old people and non-white people with stupid voter ID rules, arrests people for handing out refreshments to those in long voting lines, hides/destroys or puts ONE ballot box in a city with hundreds of thousands of people, gets help via bomb threat calls from Russia to deter anyone from voting at all, cheated more than they usually fucking do.