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I highly doubt the left will do anything uncivil. How can they win back the country? Is it too late?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If Trump won the electoral college but not the popular vote I'd say it is.non-Democratic. But he won the popular vote too. So half the country are just self destructive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

California has only counted around half their votes so a popular vote win for Kamala could be a thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Quite the change from 2016, when he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million. Congrats, 'murica.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah we are not trending in the right direction here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People don't vote because they see the system is rigged so the popular vote isn't a great standard to go by either, it's a product of the system as well

If you had 100% turnout the popular vote would be very different.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

People don’t vote because they see the system is rigged so the popular vote isn’t a great standard to go by either, it’s a product of the system as well

My area is such a strong republican district that my vote is functionally irrelevant aside from the president. Hell, they didn't even bother with democrat candidates on a local level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If that were me I would run as an independent, people love that on a local level. "I'm putting town/county first!" And say I'm going to fix the roads people LOVE talking about how bad the roads are when it comes to local politics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

There's a lot of fuckery that happened since before and after the election. They fucked with the census to give red states more ec votes. They changed voting rules and redistricted in many states. They got ballots thrown out in certain areas. Yesterday the voting computer system in my (blue) county didn't work for the first two hours fortunately I voted early. There's also a lot more nuanced targeted misinformation out there now. People have these ideas in their heads and I have no clue where they came from. I block ads all the time but I imagine places like TikTok can easily manipulate people without anybody around them knowing about it.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There were no good options. And that’s because of the electoral system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was a so-so option and a terrible option IMO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In other words, no good options. Few people were truly excited to vote for Kamala. That's the issue.