Im not United Statian but, didnt hillary win the popular vote in 2016?
Yup! So did Al Gore in 2000.
Imagine all the bullshit we’d have been spared if it hadn’t been for Roger Stone and the other cheating cunts behind the Brooks Brothers Riot, Jeb Bush, and the already corrupt as fuck SCOTUS 😮💨🤬
Don’t forget Clarence Thomas. He was also heavily involved at the time, in fact he played a decisive role, and he is just as obviously corrupt today as he was then. No consequences, no accountability whatsoever.
Yup, the electoral college is what ruins everything. Allows gerrymandering to exist and denies the majority of Americans their vote validity.
This was not true in 2024, according to Pew. The trend may reverse without Trump and/or after touching the hot stove, but recent elections have shown that Republicans made big gains among low-propensity/low-information voters while Democrats have gained among highly engaged voters.
i haven’t been following trends too long, but don’t low information voters almost always vote against the incumbent? i know i’m oversimplifying
If every American voted in PRIMARIES, BERNIE WOULD’VE WON 2016!
The issue was letting conservatives run the DNC under the label of “neoliberals”…
Like, there are fundamentally different ways a progressive and conservative think, to the point a brain scan can determine political leaning with an ~80% success rate after like five minutes of showing a human what to look for. Which is insanely impressive when you realize we rarely see 80% turnout in elections.
The neoliberals marketed themselves to Dem voters like we were conservatives, because that’s what they are and they lack the empathy to realize anyone’s different.
You can’t run a successful Dem campaign off fear, because if that appealed to Dem voters we’d be voting Republican already.
That’s why Obama did so well in 2008 off literally just saying “hope” and “change” over and over…
That’s all it fucking takes, and now that the neoliberals aren’t running the DNC, that’s what will come out of the primary naturally this time.
For those of you with MAGA family members, and who might live in states which require ID to vote: most people might pat a pocket to check that they have their wallet but aren’t likely to check their driver’s license is actually in there. Getting stuck without it at the polls might not completely stop them voting but we all have seen conservatives change their tune when something impacts them. The license could turn up at someplace like their grocery store…
I’m doing my part. In Lesser Carolina independents can vote for either party during the primary. I consistently vote in the Republican primary to vote primary out Lindsey Graham.
Zero results so far.
Thats whats is so depressing about this.
This is like those physics questions in school were we “assume constant velocity” (zero acceleration) in a frictionless vacuum.
Sure. You could get the right answer and understand something about how physics work. But it’s not really something you can directly apply to the real world.
Cue Lemleft’s “voting is for suckers” chant
