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sheepscreektoday at 2:28 AM3 repliesview on HN

Yep. Democracy is working according to a non-minority in the country. Agree to disagree?


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int_19htoday at 5:58 AM

Selling oneself into slavery is not an exercise in bodily autonomy.

Electing fascists is not an exercise in democracy.

monero-xmrtoday at 3:00 AM

When democracy votes for something you don’t like just call it populism

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mystralinetoday at 2:58 AM

Sure. I'll bite.

The majority in this country is "didn't vote". Multitudes of reasons for this.

They forgot.

They dont care.

They missed the registration deadline.

They're homeless, and no address.

They can't get proper papers, even though they are US born.

They're in prison/jail.

The candidates suck, so you dont vote.

Can't afford to take time off work.

They've been gerrymandered, so their votes are significantly degraded.

To think that the minority segment that, due to election game rules and FPTP, that a minority of the minority somehow reflects a majority? I wholly reject that.

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