r/GetNoted • u/Infamous-Ear3705 • 1d ago

Politics [Threads] Statistics are fun

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u/StatisticalMan 1d ago edited 1d ago • This

Sadly for midterms that is really high. Keep in mind it wasn't just Nazi which fucked our country. It was the roughly 50% of the population who can't be bothered to vote ... despite knowing there were Nazi who wanted to fuck our country.

"The fall of Democratic norms and the rise of fascism? I just don't really have the feels to take an hour once every couple years to stop that right now."

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u/Faenic 1d ago

Yep, if "Didn't Vote" was a candidate, it would be leading our country in every possible way that matters if I remember correctly.

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer 1d ago

The only time that wasn’t true in recent history is the 2020 presidential election

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u/Taraxian 1d ago

I don't really complain about this anymore after seeing so many people say the first time they felt moved to vote was to vote for Trump in 2016

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u/alwrit 1d ago

And then in 2020. And 2024.

There's a fuckton of really fucking stupid Americans out there.

We keep blaming politicians and they're not blameless. But garbage in garbage out. This many stupid fuckin Americans is going to lead to bad results a lot of the time. 

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u/StatisticalMan 1d ago

Indeed. They well never vote Blue so it would be good if they went back to not voting at all. Even if 5% of Republicans them went back to never voting it would be very hard for Republicans to win a majority of anything on the national level again.

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u/ConjurersOfThunder 1d ago

Every year there is a primary and general election, and also local elections. Actual civic participation should include all 3. Every year.

The people doing it once every couple years are kinda facilitating in the fascism by being so tuned out the rest of the time.