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The titanic Biden-Trump election likely will be decided by roughly 6% of voters in just six states, top strategists in both parties tell us.

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 months ago

    You’re being overly pedantic. Nobody thinks that only 6% of the votes in six states will be counted- the issue is that those votes are enough to swing the election. If something like 80,000 voters in the right states had voted the other way, Biden would have lost the 2020 election. Biden’s margin of victory was over 7 million and yet all it would have taken was 80k people voting the other way.

    And that’s why the US isn’t democratic. That the President can be elected without the consent of the majority or that the Senate doesn’t (and was never intended to) represent the majority of Americans is a problem the GOP have no intention of fixing, because they’d never win another election again.

    • OpenStarsEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Probably, but the person I was responding to said:

      In that system, people have absolutely no power other than to feel good about themselves while having a confused look on their face.

      And I was pointing out that it’s not that their vote won’t be counted, it’s just that it is balanced by a nearly equal and opposite force on the other side. But… that’s just how “democracy” works?

      We saw an example of that two elections ago, when people did protest voting by putting them into third-party candidates, which allowed Clinton to lose and thereby Trump to “win”. Those votes were counted, and if they had been put towards opposing the greater evil, really would have kept Trump from winning that election.

      That shows that votes, far from having “absolutely no power”, are actually EXTREMELY powerful! i.e. they are “necessary”, even though they are not “sufficient”. In fact, making people think that their votes don’t matter is one tactic that Republicans use to try to “win” - but just b/c they say that, does not make it TRUE!:-(

      I did say that I support changing the form of democracy in the USA. I am being pedantic in saying that we have a democracy though, b/c I feel like that detail matters. i.e. don’t just vote, but DO vote!