cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22407219
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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It’s the will of the people.
Nah, if "None of the above" was a candidate, it would've won the election.
So americans don't really want a president, just an empty podium.
Not voting just meant that they were fine with whatever the majority wanted. Like the trolly problem even not choosing is actually still a choice and those eligible nonvoters are culpable.
It's the will of the people who bothered to show up to express their will, which is basically the bare minimum of "will". They didn't say the preference of the people
Heck no, you don't get to dodge your responsibility like that. There's an electoral system in place, you deal with it as it is, you don't show up it doesn't mean you disagree with both candidates it means you agree with whatever candidate everyone else chooses for you. A vast majority of Americans agree with Trump as president, that's the state of things.
You’d have to get them to say that, though. And then they wouldn’t. Say that.
No, the American people voted in Donald Trump.
Both the popular vote and the electoral college.
America wanted him in.
By a thin margin, yes.
And only because "non-engagement" can't run.
Americans very much almost didn't vote him in. Also a fact, and it paints a very different picture.
He won according to the rules of the contest.
That’s literally all that matters.
Ah but you're forgetting that if everyone who didn't vote did vote, and happened to perfectly agree with me politically, my favorite candidate would win!
Based take and also laughed