• JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I mean no

    In an election between Bush and Kerry (the guy who lost 2004 election) or something like that then yes. People can be annoyed or just too busy to vote.

    This election was perfectly clear that the future of US democracy was at stake and more than 1/3 of the voters decided to not show up. They decided that they were fine not choosing and as such fine with either option. I mean even if the choice was between Trump and a dog, the dog should have won by a landslide. 4 years of nothing would have been miles better than the decades that US is going back.

    This presidency is already catastrophic and it barely even started.

    I don’t even know how the US and the world can handle 4 years of this shit at this pace.

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      14 hours ago

      What makes you think this was clear to people? Most people simply do not pay attention to politics, even the voters who ignorantly cast votes for whatever their tribe is.

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        14 hours ago

        even my grandma was aware that there was a lunatic in the White House who encouraged domestic terrorism and we live across the Atlantic and she doesn’t even speak English

        This isn’t on the level of which economic policy is the best for long term sustainable growth. This is just recognizing that Trump is an incompetent piece of shit that will admit to scamming whoever he can (and admit it) and literally anyone else and that if Trump won the US is fucked