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Anyone who thinks this crisis can be resolved by voting is kidding themselves. 2019 is going to be a year of unprecedented violence and you know it.
but you should still vote
We =\= Handful of Rust Belt States. I didn’t vote for the orange hot air balloon. Nor did most other people. We’re not even a real democracy, so we deserve it? I deserve having my sister persecuted and rights thrown in the garbage because she’s part of the LGBT community? No, we don’t. Don’t speak for me.
Trump won by one percent in Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, that's how he won.
Just because it's bad doesn't mean we don't deserve it. Welcome to democracy.
Donald Trump winning was a result of a combination of Russian-backed illegal social media campaigns, voter suppression tactics that have been worsening in America for decades, and the electoral college countering the will of the popular vote. Trump winning was not democracy.
Trump winning WAS democracy. Don't like that voters can be influenced? Think of a system that doesn't let dumbasses make shit choices.
democracy can be as corrupt as any other political system
People being capable of making bad choices because they were ill informed is and always has been not only a problem with, but a defining trait of democracy.
Good job deliberately ignoring 2/3rds of the things I mentioned in my post
The electoral college functions within a representative democracy. Voter suppression is being enacted through elected officials, and is possible due to laws and practices put in place democratically.
So I suppose if democratically elected officials suspended elections entirely, it'd still be democracy?
Now address the last third. (voter suppression).
Uh, I think you forgot one very important factor: that of Hillary Clinton running the worst fucking campaign ever, to the point that she didn't even campaign in several key battleground states. The election was literally decided by tens of thousands of votes. None of the other factors might have mattered if she had given a damn. So she's just as much to blame for this as the Russians, the Republican voter suppression, and the electoral college.
She fucking blew it so hard, Lincoln Chafee would have run a better campaign.
Trump didn't win the election, it was that Hillary lost it.
But at the same time, you see the stain that is the president of a big country.
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