I highly doubt the left will do anything uncivil. How can they win back the country? Is it too late?

  • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    1513 hours ago

    I think that most of the Americans want this

    Maybe, but none of the facts directly support this.

    There have been large campaigns to disenfranchise several types of voters for decades in the country. The Electoral College was designed to be unfair to appease Slave states. Voter turnout is abysmal, only about 35% of eligible citizens vote. Out of those turnout is usually around the same percentage. The highest turnout recently was 2020 only because mail in voting was expanded so dramatically, and even then it was only 67% of registered voters, so it was still only 67% of that original 37% of eligible voters. So with the highest recent turnout, we’re looking at about 25% of eligible citizens actually voting.

    • Max
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      I believe that the 67% number for the 2020 election is of eligible voters and not registered voters. While turnout is low, it’s not 25% low.

      • Billiam
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        It was ~67% of eligible voters that were registered to vote. Over 94% of registered voters actually voted.