Post #1296508

2026-04-09 11:37 UTC

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...

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@frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 2026-04-11 07:52

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.

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@FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 11:47

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?

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@wpb@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 18:58

Funding a genocide is not normal.

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@LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 15:21

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

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@CityPop@lemmy.today 2026-04-10 13:52

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

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@TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 12:16

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

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