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It's not if they can be appeased or not, it's that half the country wants them in power. You are talking about a civil war.
It's already started. They've already started the war, but right now it's just civil war between the MAGAts and immigrants. Very quickly it's going to expand to to others. They've already removed women's bodily autonomy, they've been attacking transgender people for months, and they just created their religious task force to 'defend' Christianity. Expect attacks on those groups to ramp up in the coming weeks.
It's not half that want them, it's like 20%. 80% are allowing them to do these things.
Sure, civil war, civil disobedience, call it whatever you want. They're putting children in camps, at what point do 'you' (the people of the US) stand up to it? Do they need to create death camps with ovens before you all react, or are you going to 'aww geez' at not wanting to stand up to them? The nazi's made it illegal to save children from being tortured to death, at what point do you say 'law' be damned, I won't watch this happen?
I don't know. They already (famously) put children in cages last time around, AND-PEOPLE-STILL-VOTED-FOR-HIM.
About percentages, 77M+ people voted R, and IIRC there were 160M registered voters, so close to half of voters voted for him, much more than 20%.
Apologies, I mentally did percentage of population, not percentage of adults/voters. The Fascists got 29% of voting-aged adults. I will say there is still a massive percentage of the population just watching this happen--voting against it is not enough. in Nazi Germany, saving children from torture was illegal. People are still talking about this like there's some sort of holiness to the legal system: there isn't. It's not a justice system, it's a highly corruptible legal system. Enough people can rise up and easily stop this, they're just too scared to do it, because man, one thing I've learned since 2016 is just how terrified the average American is most of the time. Then actual things to be afraid of arrive, and they freeze up.
I think the 29% is if you include all adults, but many are not elegible (immigrants, felons, etc) and might have voted R if they could.
Call me pessimistic, but I think there's enough people to rise up.
A quarter of the country wants them in power.
Another (almost) half didn't give enough fucks to even notice.
How do you come to one quarter? They got almost half of registered voters, even if you count elegible but unregistered it would be one third. Plenty of kids, felons, etc who can't vote and might or might not support the shitshow.
They got half of the people who cast a ballot.
~~But almost half of the eligible voters didn't vote at all~~
Edit: correction, almost 1/3 of eligible voters didn't vote Source
Was it that bad? The only figure I know is 160M registered voters, and 150M people voted.
You might want to re-check your sources.
Source:Council on Foreign Relations
Source: wikipedia
My sources are fine, you are talking about elegible, I talked about registered.
The fact remains that the eligible voters could have voted if they chose to.
And, instead, they sat out and allowed the current bullshit situation to happen.
Getting registered is not a difficult task.
They chose not to.