Because you now did it to yourself.

  • CompostMaterial@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I was looking at those numbers too. And if you compare Trump’s 24 numbers to 2020, he lost about 4M votes this time. So it’s not like the 20M from Biden voted for Trump this time, they just didn’t vote.

    20 million people are going to be the reason for the death of Democracy.

    Assholes.

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      2 months ago

      20 million PLUS all the Trump voters.

      You must not focus solely on non-voters.

      • The people voting for Trump are much more directly responsible.
      • You will need those non-voters in the future, completely alienating them now will not help the cause.
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      2 months ago

      The non-voters had nothing to do with this. They literally did not participate.

      Any real democracy would count the non-voters as part of the results. 20M not voting? OK then, any policies that affect everyone can no longer be enacted. No new laws. No new wars. Government can then maintain plumbing and provide public services, that’s it.

      Why isn’t that the case? Why is it not a requirement for people to vote for government to have power?

      Democracy…? Sure. Whatever hope you need to feel, friend, see you in the streets I hope.

      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Why isn’t that the case?

        There is no law in the US mandating that people vote. I can only speculate as to how that started, and why that’s still the case.

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          2 days ago

          The argument I’m making is not that the cops should pick you up if you don’t vote…

          The argument I’m making is that politicians should not have full power if people don’t vote.