• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      People don’t have to be okay with it. Just the 20% of the population who votes for these assholes. Our system of government makes sure a minority can rule as long as their population density is sufficiently low.

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          7 months ago

          I’m from Louisiana. This person is referring to the abysmal voter turnout. They said 20% of the population, not 20% of the voters.

          Given that only about 36% of the eligible voting population even turned out to vote, this is accurate.

          With that turnout it literally only takes 20% of the population to enable shit like this.

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            7 months ago

            Australia had a bad turnout once and the illegitimate government got tired of being rightfully called illegitimate and said from now on everyone votes, and it helped a little bit.

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              7 months ago

              That might help here, except that Republicans actively label attempts to raise the voter turnout as a Democrat power grab, and Republicans are the only ones with any power. It’ll never happen

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              7 months ago

              I always wondered how it came about, Wws the govt that introduced it rewarded by being proven to be illegitimate? I could easily imagine they’d get pounded at the next election just for forcing people to come out and vote when they’d rather not!