• Schwim Dandy
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    161 year ago

    Didn’t we get to that point by the loud ones being able to vote their chosen into office though? That’s the part that surprises me, that there were enough of them to get the proper people in office to dismantle the country’s democratic process.

    • A lot of it was a coordinated effort to gerrymander. They lost the popular vote by almost 7 million votes in both of the last two elections. There’s also been a lot of foreign countries targeting misinformation and propaganda campaigns in the U.S., Russia, China, Vietnam, Iran.

      And we’ve been buying it unfortunately. They’ve been attempting to sow anger on the left and the right, and make it seem like everyone is more extreme than most people are, which has furthered the divide on both sides of the political spectrum.

      Unfortunately, there’s also roughly 20-25% of the population who just eats this crap up, and they’re the extremists now dominating national headlines.

      Sadly, the electoral college is the reason we are in this mess right now.