• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    The percentage of eligible voters that actually vote in the U.S. is pathetic.

    65.3% of voters voted in 2024. Thats higher than the UK or Ireland, and its not even a national holiday to do it. Its close to par with Canada.

    So I call BS on your post.

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      8 hours ago

      And it’s pathetic in those places too. But when it’s a choice of trump or a less insane option, that 35% of Americans who didn’t bother to vote is a whole lot of idiots who are part of the problem.

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        5 hours ago

        I see you arent going after the dems who ran a ridiculously bad campaign. why not?

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          4 hours ago

          They ran what they ran. I honestly don’t know if they’d had a further left platform if they’d have lost more centrists than gained leftist votes in the places that mattered. But they were still obviously the far better choice, so I still hold any American who didn’t vote for them responsible for trump and his actions.