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Keep crying lemmy. Trump won the popular vote. In any reasonable democracy he should become the president.
So Hilary should have been prez in 2016?
... and Gore in 2000.
In the incredibly unlikely event that a GOP nominee won the popular but lost the electoral college, Republicans would HOWL
People are upset because you are or are coming across as a Trump supporter but what you're saying is exactly right and is one of the problems with democracy.
Democracy sucks when it's the dictatorship of the majority and it's even worse when it's the dictatorship of the minority (i.e. due to non-voters) and that's what democracy has become.
It'd be grand if elected officials were representative of everyone, not just their voters (really: their funders), or if we didn't need elected representatives at all.
American democracy is a few steps removed from the ideal democracy and that itself is removed from ideal governance. To get ahead of questions: yes I'm advocating for self governance, consensus building, free association, and other aspects of left-anarchism
eyup. would have been a heck of a lot better if folks took this more seriously when deciding to vote and for who. Still. Rank choice voting would have fixed this pretty good.