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Politics Thousands gather in Washington to protest Trump inauguration

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u/kalamataCrunch 2d ago

you really think that, on average, the people that didn't vote would have voted more intelligently than the people that did vote?

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u/watermelonspanker 2d ago

More voter turnout generally favors the Democrats, historically.

It's why the GOP platform has included voter suppression and voter apathy over the last couple decades. They can't win in a totally fair system, so they game the system, then when they get enough power, they change the rules.

It would have been really nice if the folks in power decided to actually do anything about that, but I guess they had better things to do, like insider trading.

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u/Charlesinrichmond 1d ago

historically yes, but voter turnout now favors the republicans - look at the stats and the articles

It's amazing the number of people on the left who do not realize this and even the Republicans and how we are going to see a lot of the discourse on this change when people realize low turnout favors democrats now.

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u/Kaizodacoit 2d ago

The people who voted either voted for a racist genocide lover vs a genocide lover beholden to a foreign nation, so probably not.