There are millions of people living in the so called USA who are not eligible to vote or for whom its not accessible. Examples are young people below the voting age, felons, migrants or those in precarious living conditions.
Funny how someone with an anti electoral mindset has to point that out to someone who seems to be a supporter of electoralism.
I guess you always meant it more like " Trump won the election with a majority of the electoral college and won the popular vote", so maybe this discussion was kinda unnecessary, but I for me there is a clear difference between those two statements which I wanted to point out. I think its helpful to make clear that there are more than 77% of people living in the US that in fact did not vote for Trump and might be receptive for many different ways of resisting the fascist coups.
The ones who made a concious choice not to vote are such a small group of people that its just weird to keep focussing on them. The thought that informed anti electoralism is a noteworthy force in US politics is imo heavily misguided and fails to highlight and tackle all the barriers that many people face when they actually want to vote/participate in democracy.
He got over 50% of the vote.
Which is less than 25% of the population. A little more than 2 out of 10 voted for him
Everyone who chose not to vote agreed with this as well so that significantly raises that number.
There are millions of people living in the so called USA who are not eligible to vote or for whom its not accessible. Examples are young people below the voting age, felons, migrants or those in precarious living conditions.
Funny how someone with an anti electoral mindset has to point that out to someone who seems to be a supporter of electoralism.
I’m simply pointing out the Trump won the election with a majority of the electoral college and won the popular vote.
He won the contest by the rules and some people can’t seem to wrap their minds around it.
I guess you always meant it more like " Trump won the election with a majority of the electoral college and won the popular vote", so maybe this discussion was kinda unnecessary, but I for me there is a clear difference between those two statements which I wanted to point out. I think its helpful to make clear that there are more than 77% of people living in the US that in fact did not vote for Trump and might be receptive for many different ways of resisting the fascist coups.
The ones who were eligible to vote and didn’t chose it just as much as if they voted for him.
The ones who made a concious choice not to vote are such a small group of people that its just weird to keep focussing on them. The thought that informed anti electoralism is a noteworthy force in US politics is imo heavily misguided and fails to highlight and tackle all the barriers that many people face when they actually want to vote/participate in democracy.
What? Should we absolve 40% of the population? 90 million people?
Fuck that and fuck them. They deserve everything coming.
They are not a small group.