• Sunshine@piefed.caOPM
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    7 days ago

    77.3m american voters directly cast their ballot for Donald Trump in 2024. That’s hardly half.

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      77M of 155M or 49%, about half.

      You can extrapolate that the voting population approximately represents the non-voting population. Or, if you are a prick, you can say that non-voters didn’t want this but refrained from voting and are therefore to blame, in which case they still chose this.

      America has always been a racists, bigoted, sexist, right-wing playground. The only thing that has changed is that now they don’t have to hide it.

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        7 days ago

        77M of 155M or 49%, about half.

        That’s not half of ordinary Americans that’s those who voted within the turnout.

        America has always been a racists, bigoted, sexist, right-wing playground. The only thing that has changed is that now they don’t have to hide it.

        The 13 colonies was vastly different from the modern 50 states.

        You shouldn’t paint the various time periods in American history the same broad brush.

        America was not the same as it is today. FDR was magnitudes of a better man than Donald Trump ever was. Not to mention the populace’s beliefs have evolved over time.