Comment by Steal Wool@lemm.ee on The same goes for third parties in First Past the Post systems.

Its only been 24hrs and this post aged like milk.

Aged like fine wine my dude, ~14mill less dems showed up to vote

And the fault for that lies squarely with Democrat politicians.

it’s absolutely not politicians, it’s the people.

This is like being presented with “would you rather stick a nail in your arm, or in your eye” and then doing nothing, only to have the nail get stuck in your eye by a third party.

The fault lies squarely with people who make assinine claims without any evidence, pretending they hold some deep wisdom when they really don’t know shit.

You are the evidence to support my claim, Poopster, in case that wasn’t obvious.

What’s a politicians job during the campaign?

To convince people that they’re worth electing.

If they could understand that you need to appeal to voters to win an election, they’d be very upset.

I love this, you made me smile on a very shit day, so thank you for that.

and it’s the peoples job to vote for the best candidate…

Weird that donald trump WON the election, that’s real curious.

When did voting become mandatory?

The only obligation to voting is your right to exercise it how you choose, full stop. It is not anyone’s “job” to vote any specific way, this is the entitlement Democratic voters need to get over.

Yeah, Trump won because he convinced his base he was worth voting for. Harris couldn’t convince her base that he was a threat and that she was worth voting for.

She did try to win over Republican voters instead of her own, though. 94% of them voted Republican anyway, just like they did in 2020.

But I’m sure you’ll tell me that was the voter’s fault too. 🙄

Edit: I brought up mandatory voting because it could be legislated that way, just as voting day could be made a federal holiday. And laws could be passed to mandate paid time off to allow essential workers to vote on voting day if absentee/early voting are unavailable. Or what if you were automatically registered to vote on your 18th birthday, none of this registering nonsense.

Damn, those are all great policy ideas that the Democrats could run on, or even implement, since they have been outwardly more supportive of people voting. Funny that they haven’t done that in the last couple decades…

… It’s almost like the Dems don’t want that roughly 60% of people who don’t vote to start voting. Wonder why that is…

Do you think these people stayed home?

I know that they didn’t vote

You know there was 14 million less people this time l than last. You don’t know if they were Democrats. Literally low information, high opinion person. And we know what happens to them.

(Hell, you don’t even know that 14 million didn’t show because we don’t have the final vote total.)

Trump also has less votes than last time and almost all votes are tallied at this point, there isn’t millions left. Voters in general didn’t show up as much for this election.

Lowest turnout since 2020. Second highest since 1920.

Exactly. Trump got less votes than he did last election (which he lost).

What definitely didn’t happen is people changed their mind. That’s impossible!

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