• sizing743@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      “This country” This is world news thread, and even then is a UK news article. Americans and their damn elections …

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        8 months ago

        You are right, and I apologize again. Once again through I will say, while it came from an (admittedly self centered) American point of view, there’s plenty of other places that it could have just as easily come from.

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        8 months ago

        You are right, apologies, I’m talking from the US perspective but we aren’t alone, same could be said from several…

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      8 months ago

      Not half. Never forget that the insane, reactionary conservatives are a minority in this country. They’re just extremely loud.

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        8 months ago

        They’re only a “minority” because a third of the country will happily sit on the sidelines while they try to kill the other third.

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          8 months ago

          US elections are mostly by state not by county. You can see states that voted blue despite being majority red on the county level. And Alaska is the opposite example where county level seems more blue but the state is red. It’s a misleading map because it doesn’t represent population density. Most of red counties are low population areas.

          The state distribution however is kinda BS, but the real reason republicans can have power with a clear minority is because of the FPTP voting that prefers a two party system instead of a multiparty system. GOP would be far more fringe party if more alternatives existed.