• Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    My unfortunate observation is the majority of people who voted for Trump don’t pay any attention to current events and basically get their news via rumor. But if you want the true culprit, it’s the 15 million Democrats that voted last time but not this time. The votes for Trump actually went down compared to last time.

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      8 months ago

      I fit was a few million less I would blame voter suppression via things like purging voter rolls. But the drop is so drastic it is clear the problem is that at least 10+ million people simply chose not to vote against an obvious threat to the country because the Dem candidate for President wasn’t appealing enough.

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        8 months ago

        Well 114 million people who could have voted this year didn’t. It’s a combination of apathy and laziness. We could be like Australia and mandate the vote.

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          8 months ago

          Republicans won’t allow it. They win when people don’t vote, it’s a fact. They now dominate the legislative, so you can forget about it.

          The real solution is to raise the interest of people in politics. Look at the south.