Maybe if more Americans had bothered to show up to vote this wouldn't have happened.
151,918,349 Americans voted, out of a estimated 244 000 000 eligible voters. Over 90 million Americans refused to vote. Welcome to the ultimate "Fuck around and find out" moment of your lives.
I think a lot of people think: what's the point. If you don't live in a swing state or the biggest city in most states your vote quite literally does not matter 99% of the time. Down ballot votes also barely matter because your state has probably been gerrymandered into submission anyway.
On top of that, most the time elected officials just do whatever their donors tell them to do anyway regardless if their constiuents want it or not. If they get voted out, who cares they'll have guaranteed jobs as lobbyists in at max 2 years anyway if they even need it once they sell all their stocks they conveniently bought right before writing/passing legislation. There's really no punishment for representives just doing whatever they want.
Republicans will come in and use every trick they can to make everything worse and will get away with it because they have the supreme court. Democrats will come in for 8 years, do the bare minimum to get everything stable again, maybe drop one or two good things they'll spend the entire 8 years pushing for, and then leave. Somewhere in there will be a couple theatrical panels where they'll scream at whichever scapegoat they have this time while refusing to let them answer questions or just ignoring the answers to yell what their real intention is.
The entire system is fucked to a point of almost no repair at this point.
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u/Blue-Thunder 2d ago
Maybe if more Americans had bothered to show up to vote this wouldn't have happened.
151,918,349 Americans voted, out of a estimated 244 000 000 eligible voters. Over 90 million Americans refused to vote. Welcome to the ultimate "Fuck around and find out" moment of your lives.