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[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

So you have an average normal politician running against literally Hitler. And people vote for literally Hitler.

And you don't think the problem is the people voting for literally Hitler?

Don't get me wrong, the US voting system is also bad. But that is really, really not the main problem here...

[–] frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Considering how land has more political power than people in the US, the voting system is still a major issue.

If we had the National Popular Vote for US elections, then more people living in deep blue states would have more reason to show up to vote when their candidate already is going to win by well over double digit points in their state.

When low population states are overrepresented in Senate and Presidential elections, then we can end up in a ruled by the minority situation.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago (2 children)

IMO the bigger problem is that the "average normal politician" managed to be so bad that voters didn't feel motivated to vote against Hitler.

This should have been a slam dunk - and there were literally a number of easy ways to motivate voters, like promising to stop the ongoing genocide the country is funding. But when given the choice between "letting Hitler win" and "stopping the genocide", Harris and the entire DNC leadership chose to let Hitler win.

Isn't that deeply fucked up?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was a slam dunk. I still know trump supporters who think everything negative said about him is a lie. Why did this never happen in human history before (an unrelenting smear campaign running for over a decade against an innocent man)? Meh I dunno something about woke.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Harris's win obviously wasn't a slam dunk, she lost.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah but she COULD have won retroactively if we browbeat people who already vote blue for the next ten years about it

[–] CityPop@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Average normal politicians don’t give Hitler weapons to commit genocide.

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean? Hitler committed genocide, so Hitler was given the weapons. And Hitler was given the authority for those weapons through a democratic process, by way of average normal politicians (Paul von Hindenburg, specifically).

[–] CityPop@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

I mean Netanyahu is Hitler and they were giving him weapons. That’s not what normal does.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Funding a genocide is not normal.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

If you had this system in Europe you would not like the results. Best outcome: 200 years of middle of the road conservative shit Christian party

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I agree. If this can ever happen all you can really say is that us culture is cancer.