• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    Trump won with 31% of eligible voters and 49.8% of actual votes cast, 35% of eligible voters stayed home.
    If even 2% of those that stayed home would have voted we would be living in a very different world right now.
    1 in 3 people sat on their hands and let this happen.

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      If only the Democrats tried getting Democrats to vote for them instead of Republicans, they might have actually focused on things Democratic voters wanted. Instead they went more center right. Liz Cheney wasn’t out there trying to drum up support from Democrats.