• Bogasse@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        The posts you reply to have been deleted, but I’m assuming it’s talking about “taking responsibilities about the people’s vote” based on this single quote…

        From a foreigner perspective it’s hard to imagine how a federal election is perceived for Americans, because your country is so big with so many states that have completely different mindset and economics.

        In Europe we have a shared parliament that works on making compromises on some topics, but I guess a global referendum would be a huge mess too.

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            3 days ago

            To be fair (French here), we love to make fun of your elections but ours in not much better.

            We elect our president in two rounds and only keep the two best candidates for the second round. So if every candidates has around 10% of votes, two rather niche candidates could get to second round. To avoid this, it means that candidates that have compatible-ish ideas should team up on compromises but apparently that’s not a competitive strategy (compromises make you look weak maybe ? 🤷)

            So yeah, we can also have weird results. But at least we have a large panel of ideas that gets represented-ish (our society gets more and more polarized too, and this is frightening).

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        3 days ago

        Sure thing, stretch.

        The Nov 6 election returned both a popular vote and huge electoral victory for maga, The GOP made gains almost everywhere, and 6 million , or so, Biden voters didn’t bother to vote. Hence, those inside America chose.

        I preferred my original few words, but hey.
        Fee-fees.