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submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Half the regular people also want it this way

Only 28% of adults voted for this and lots of Trump voters just wanted the cheaper groceries that Trump promised them (he lied).

So please don't spread the lie that Trump has majority support or any kind of mandate. He doesn't. Over a 100 million people didn't bother to vote because they have no faith or hope that voting can improve their lives. They aren't wrong. At best, electing Democrats is just a stay of execution.

[–] JasSmith 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Only 28% of adults voted for this

Uh, isn’t that how American elections work? It’s decided based on the proportion of people who voted, not on the proportion of all adults. Trump won the popular vote 49.9% to 48.3% with the second highest number of votes in U.S. history. I don’t think any democracy divides votes by the total number of adults. How would that even work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

It does mean that not much more than 28% of the adult population support him though.

So he's enacting all these democracy eroding changes for techno-authoitirians/fuedalists off of less than 1/3rd of the US's population's support.

Elections don't care, nor does policy. But it is closer to 1/4 than 1/2 of people who can even begin to be said as his supporters. Despite what the media cycle might imply.