• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          It sure would be. The problem is we have a republic, not a democracy. So even though a candidate runs on one thing, if they change their stance then we just have to live with it.

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        4 days ago

        Technically true but irrelevant.

        A majority of Americans do not give a shit about Danemark and would not lift their pinky to help one of their staunchest allies. That is true.

        MAGA is a (large) minority. That is also true.

        This is all enabled by a very sizeable chunk of Americans being literally mentally unable to conceptualize people outside their village as living, breathing, fully conscious people deserving of love and safety. They are colloquially known as “non-voters”.

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        5 days ago

        Unfortunately you are obviously wrong.
        Trump got the majority vote, Republicans have behaved like sociopaths for decades, and Trump even turned it up to a whole new level.
        It was very obvious, and despite that he got the majority vote. That clearly shows the Majority of Americans accepted these sociopathic policies. There is no way around it, it was too obvious to claim afterwards that “this was not what we voted for”, because USA got EXACTLY what they voted for. And lame excuses like it’s only half the population that vote are frivolous. Because despite the clear danger, people did NOT turn up to vote against Trump.

        Everybody who didn’t vote but could have, accepted that Trump might win, and was OK with that.

        If you didn’t vote, or voted Trump, you don’t get to whine about it afterwards. It’s not like he changed character after the vote.