• MourningDove@lemmy.zip
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      19 hours ago

      Yeahs this is why I am usually responding to things like this saying that it was all avoidable. 91 million people stayed home and didn’t bother.

      That’s what caused this. I not wish there was a way out for those that did their part.

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        12 hours ago

        (…) it was all avoidable.

        It really wasn’t. Everything in American politics for long years has been leading to this point. It was always bound to happen, sooner or later. Sure, by choosing another president you could have potentially delayed it by a few years. But later it would have happened anyway. This is not a ‘Trump issue’. This is a ‘USA issue’.

        I think Americans are the only ones who haven’t seen this coming. And I don’t mean that in a hostile way. Your education system has been sabotaged for decades, so it’s no wonder the people are uninformed and ignorant to what’s going on. The only ones to blame are the psychopathic politicians and billionaires who deliberately made this happen over the last 200 years.

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          12 hours ago

          Fair point, but I was more meaning on the more recent and shorter term angle. I do agree wholeheartedly though.

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      22 hours ago

      They were called voters. They don’t matter anymore, you’re gonna see any potential for voters to influence things get removed by extensive and massive gerrymandering.

      IMO, y’all just had your last ‘real’ election.

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        15 hours ago

        Gerrymandering only applies to the house of representatives. It has no bearing on presidential or Senate elections.