Thank you for actually listing the accurate % of people who voted for this orange baffoon. One pet peeve of mine is the constant, majority of people voted for him. Ugh no, only a small % of eligble voters voted for him, everybody else chose another candidate or did not vote.š
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Yes those who did not vote are complicit too but are we all not complicit in the inhumane travesties that affect our society on a daily basis even though our actions or lack thereof are indirectly contributing to the travesties. Not a single one of us is perfect nor has our hands clean. Non voters chose the indirect action to not vote even though a non vote led to this clown disaster. The low voter turn out is indictative of a much larger issue at hand as to why eligible voters are choosing not to vote: selfishness, lack of education, lack of resources to vote, not caring about any of the candidates etc. The last time we had a high % of voter turnout was with Obama. The Dems need to get back to what went right there and build on it and also grow a fucking spine. The Republican Party does not give a damn about working with them, they live by "rules for thee but not for me."š
I'm curious if it's different in some places because yes, for me it was early voting for weeks and emails and letters letting me know, "hey! It's us. Please make sure you're registered to vote and if you want to vote in person make sure you know when and where!" Incessantly for months.
In Washington State, we do everything by mail by default. Register to vote online, get your ballot and information booklets and just mail it in the prepaid mailer or at a county dropbox. Last year it even started coming with a sticker! Usually asked if you want to or have registered to vote when getting an ID at the DMV
In addition, 16 and 17yos can sign up to be future voters and get automatically registered when eligible.
I wish it was compulsory and punished for nonparticipating. You donāt get to enjoy this country unless youāre participating and doing your civic duties. You donāt have to serve in the military but at least serve your fellow Americans with a little bit of effort.
Here in Aus it is compulsory, but itās some bugger all fine (like $50 or something, idk probably more now) if you donāt. They give you a sausage in bread if you go in person though and who doesnāt love food
We recently had a State Election in Western Australia, there was three voting centres within a 5 minute walk from my house. When I got there, there was 4 people in the line ahead of me
I'm in Estonia and we have digital voting (in addition the voting booths). So it took me 2 min on the computer and done.
I also don't get the having to registrate to be able to vote. If you're a citizen of X town why isn't it just possible to vote? It's how it works here. Everybody is registered as a citizen in some city and is voting according to that.
Actually it was 64% that voted last November. Trump won with 32% of the total electorate. When they are bragging about the peopleās mandate and how he had such a huge win keep this in mind.
We hold those that didn't vote just as accountable as those who voted for him. They couldn't be bothered enough to vote, and therefore they share part of the blame.
The people who did not vote were ok with this outcome. While they technically didnāt vote for him, their inaction of voting against him is the same as if they had voted for him.
Seriously like even in the Popular vote he beat her by like what 2 million votes? Not even half of the people voted, and 0.8% of the voting age population? As usual with the Electoral College it was the Swing States that killed her, and Iām not so sure there wasnāt a concerted push by Elon to juke the numbers. How is the billionaire bankrolling a candidates campaign even able to get the contract?
but are we all not complicit in the inhumane travesties that affect our society on a daily basis even though our actions or lack thereof are indirectly contributing to the travesties.
Yes, everyone is contributing directly and indirectly to the problems in society, even those who have submitted to apathy. People just don't like to admit it because it would force them to take responsibility for their (lack of) actions and admit mistakes.
Not a single one of us is perfect nor has our hands clean.
That really isn't the great argument you think it is. Nothing justified inaction.
A democracy can only exist if citizens participate. And voting is the bare minimum. It's one of the responsibilities to ensure the existence of a society that requires representation, you know, a society the apathetic, disillusioned individual also still continues to live in.
We are already handing over our political power to others, but by not voting we eliminate the little influence we have left entirely.
And we can observe and experience the impact of such apathy right now.
People need to stop making excuses and stop feeling sorry for themselves. You go tell people in third world nations that first worlders are too busy and too tired to vote.
People are just too comfortable and too privileged, they don't know what it's like to fight for your rights and freedoms while your family is dying next to you.
Reality isn't just a TV show a passively watch and tune out of whenever it gets too difficult.
The current state of affairs is the result of corporations and wealthy elite actively shaping political and economical decisions. They are involved on many levels, doing what's good for them.
You want better lives, you need to do something about, because the 1% not even the 10% will do it for you.
Ugh yeah, I was listening (radio) to this lady ramble on that she didn't know who to vote for, she had voted blue all her life, she was either not going to vote or vote for Republic, but one thing for sure she was not going to vote blue. I wonder how she is doing now...
Closer to 40%. 37% of the voting age population if memory serves. More than in 2020 even though itās supposedly āthe most important election everā. Still way too much though.Ā
Well weāre techically not in a recession just yet. Weāre 2/3 of the way there. This quarter GDP shrank so if the next one does too as it likely will we will officially be in a recession. Break out the champagne now because in a couple months we wonāt be able to afford it.Ā
It is mostly true but thereās more to the story.
Americans arenāt incentivized to vote & voting is not typically accessible. Election days are regular working days. Districts are gerrymandered so transportation is often not available. In districts where people do vote, lines can exceed hours in direct sunlight where actual laws prohibit water or snacks from being available.
When voting was more accessible during the pandemic via mail in voting & people having actual time off work, more people voted. Voting rights activists have been trying to bring attention to these issues for decades. Republicans keep it introducing laws to make it even more of a hassle to vote. Voting is intentionally suppressed here.
This does not even speak to the influence of social media & Fox News on voting behaviors.
It amazes me that voting day is not a paid holiday in USA. Where I come from, a tiny island in the Caribbean, voting day is considered a holiday. All businesses close so people can actually you know, go vote.
In Australia, it's just on a Saturday. So you drop in on the way to the shops. Voting is very accessible in terms of locations you can vote (in inner and outer suburbia at least, maybe not so much regional). But a lot of people got on board with the postal vote during COVID and continue to request it and do so.
4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data.
By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed āvigilanteā voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.
No less than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).
At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.
1,216,000 āprovisionalā ballots were rejected, not counted.
3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.
If the purges, challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldnāt matter. Itās anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.
There are also the uncountable effects of the explosive growth of voter intimidation tactics including the bomb threats that closed 31 polling stations in Atlanta on Election Day.ā
Imagine being a black person, knowing that you're just voting so things don't get worse, you take the time, look up all the issues, make your decision, plan a day you don't work, drive out and drop off you ballot a week early and fucking nazis bomb the ballot drop box.
On Gerry mandering; I drove past two separate voting locations before reaching mine. The first is literally on the corner of the street where I live. How was that not my districtās voting location?
You have to take the none voters into account and honestly they fucked us harder than trumps base.
Protest voters and none voters all will tell you āboth sidesā if you ask why they didnāt vote.
Which in itself shows how stupid most Americans are.
Protest voters you said you cared about the kids in Gaza. Biden got a ceasefire and Harris wanted peace.
Trump had bragged about how cheap beach front property will be in Gaza when they are all killed. And now wishes to build a resort over top those dead kids. And he is able to do this because you all didnāt vote.
Itās pathetic. America is fucked. The idiots mobilize and vote. The progressives whine that the ceasefire candidate and universal health care candidate are somehow the exact same as the fascist right.
They are who cost us the election. Donāt blame the 27 person who voted because they are in a cult. Blame the majority of Americans who didnāt vote all while the GOP is open with the fact less voter turnout helps them win.
The U.S. is so polarised that there seems to be two distinct and clashing realities. I just have no clue how you get through to all those brainwashed by MAGA
I mean here's the literal president telling them it would happen too, but they didn't want to listen. This is why I have zero empathy for anyone who voted for him/didn't vote at all, because every Godamn thing he literally said he would do? He is. AND he said it clear as day, even if in some cases it sounds moronic because that's just trump. But yeah, if you were on the right side of history good! If you weren't...fuck yourselves
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u/RoyalChris 1d ago
She warned us all so many fucking times. It's a shame 27% of the population refused to listen.