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• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kinda? Most Americans are extremely low-information on politics, and never proactively educated as to how to find that information or why it matters. We are the most propagandized population on Earth, our country has little to no standards for factual information on the news and several of our major outlets are just pure corporate spin, while all of our major newspapers are owned by oligarchs. Demographic fact is gerrymandered out of our districts, our default voting method creates perverse incentives to elect popularity over platform and locks third parties out of viability. Individual jurisdictions decide how voting is accomplished and more often than not use this power to make it difficult to do so instead of easier. There is almost no enforcement of laws requiring leave from work to vote. There is next to no oversight of our actual voting machines and little trust in tabulation, while parties can and often do purge voter roles between elections without informing those who they nullified, And ultimately most people didn’t vote for this because quite frankly most people don’t or can’t vote for one of the reasons above or something that I missed.

  Saying “The people voted for this” sounds logical but the reality on the ground makes the statement wholly disingenuous. At the very least it’s not a statement that can be built off of for a more productive outcome, in fact it’s a thought-terminating cliche.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Saying “The people voted for this” sounds logical but the reality on the ground makes the statement wholly disingenuous.

    It’s not. There’s no other way to have a govt “for the people” than to hold an election.

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    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Seems like you didn’t really absorb anything that I wrote. Fortunately selectively quoting my comment doesn’t make the rest of it go away, you can always go back and read it again.

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