• glimse@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Don’t say half the country - most of the country doesn’t vote. Trump got 74m votes and the US has a population of 330m.

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        7 months ago

        Snooze

        Not voting doesn’t mean you’re a Putin bootlicker. Way to move the goalpost

        I guess everyone with a marijuana conviction loves Putin, huh?

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            But you’re still kinda right. Not voting is a vote for trump, and conservatives know this. Disenfranchisement via drug convictions is a key weapon in their arsenal.

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              He’s not right to say that half the country voted for Trump. I am tired of the narrative that half the country is magats

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      Sounds like a good portion of the country is not represented and we need to do away with first past the post voting.

      More people voting means more democratic votes, so what’s the holdup blue states?

      What if Republicans want to not vote for Trump, but are tied to him because if they don’t vote for him the democrats win?

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        Not just FPTP voting…the electoral college has to go, tok. Many people think “my vote doesn’t matter, my state is voting X anyway” and, in a way, they’re right. The electoral college makes our votes matter less.

        There’s also too many people who are barred from voting. For example, one of the most politically-active people I know can’t vote because he got a felony for possessing a half ounce of weed 15 years ago in college.

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      So what, you assume that everyone not literally voting for Trump doesn’t support him? That’s ridiculous. The real number surely is closer to half than it is to the quarter that the votes add up to.

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        Not all all considering

        1. Young people generally lean left. Especially now with their access to information

        2. People with non-violent convictions like marijuana felonies also generally lean left. Disenfranchisement is a tool used mostly by one side of the aisle

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      Yes, 330 million souls. But how many are voters? Or in US children vote in kindergarten 😉