• Hegar@fedia.io
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      12 hours ago

      30% of the adult population voted for him.

      We’re not even a democracy, there’s literally no way he could represent anyone but the rich.

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          11 hours ago

          I wouldn’t say all of that 30% thought that. There is a lot of purposeful and tactical decisions made by the GOP to prevent democratic votes. States where mail in and early voting are not allowed is an example, another is the polling places that do not allow you to give water to the people waiting in line. Then theres the ad campaigns that targeted black people saying of they voted they were going to be jailed by the IRS for some vague tax fraud reason. Some people are terrorized out of being able to vote.

          Thats not to discount that there are definitely stupid privileged fucks who simply chose not to vote and let Trump happen.

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          10 hours ago

          The apathy of many us citizens to the idea that their government could possibly matter to them is a direct result of a massive legal, and influence campaign by far right elites, their representatives in government and their allies overseas. A functional state is supposed to have institutions to combat that.

          The effectiveness of the current far right coup is a failure of our institutions, and the low participation of many in the US is a symptom of that failure, not a cause.

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        This isn’t foreign agencies, that’s where the confusion lies with Americans, trump is the poster child for the rot that is the US government which has existed for generations. This is who the US has always been to marginalized communities, most people are only seeing it now because the rot is bleeding over onto white people.