• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    Even the far left is stupid in America. They’re supposed to be the educated ones. But instead of doing their civic duty, they stayed home. And you can blame it on Democrats all you like, but it’s your duty to go vote, no matter who you vote for. The turnout this election was pathetic.

    I don’t understand how these people are going to complain now for the next 4 years, when they didn’t even want to take part.

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      It is absolutely fucking infuriating how many people disagree with your assessment here but you are absolutely 100% right as fuck.

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        Ok this line of thinking is pissing me off.

        As of this right now the turn out is 140,144,378 and counting (it will be weeks before the final number).

        If we look at the last 90 or so years we can see that this “sad turnout” is the second highest only behind 2020s 158,481,688.

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          90 years ago the entire US population was less than that 140 million, let alone eligible voters. Percentage of eligible voters would make a better argument than absolute numbers when you’re comparing over time.

          That said, 140m versus 158m is a huge drop. An astonishing drop. The final total could still amount to a >10% reduction in turnout, despite a slight increase in the number of eligible voters. I don’t understand how that could be viewed as not sad, regardless of who you vote for.

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            Ok, a few things. This is also using the percent of eligible voters and shows about the expected turn out if not higher then normal. And more importantly 140 million is not the final number in fact some places have stated “National turnout has been estimated at 64.5 percent this year, with around 158 million ballots counted out of the 245 million eligible voters.”

            I am sorry that this is not the easy target of blame people clearly want it to be.

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      She got 14 millions less votes than Biden.I doubt there are even 10 million far leftists in the USA.

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      But instead of doing their civic duty, they stayed home

      Do you have anything to back this up, or is this typical Democrat blaming people they never tried to appeal to?

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        Good chance there isn’t going to be a next time, dude. It’s hard not sounding hyperbolic when saying things like “its the end of the world” but the next four years were CRITICAL to climate change, and we’ve voted to pour even more gas all over it. We don’t even have violent resistance to fall back on. The ‘progressives’ who stayed home this election because they couldnt hold their nose and vote for harris? Have damned us all. They’re just as much to blame for whats about to happen as the pathetic campaign harris was running.

        It doesn’t matter if we’re fracturing the left. There was never any unity there in the first place.

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      Democrats didnt want people voting. This was the year of fighting against ballot access. They directly disenfranchised so many people.