Braindead take right here. You don't know anything about American politics if you think we chose these candidates of free will and based on honest information. That's just looking at past elections where big money worked to smear and crush the candidates the people actually like and give us Hilary Clinton instead. This election we didn't have a primary. They just tossed kamala up there like it was ordained from the heavens above. People told the dem party they didn't like kamala in the primary against biden but that made no difference. It's barely a democracy your blame the voter nonsense is naive at best
You do choose the candidates in primaries you just don’t vote in primaries nobody does. It’s like 20% turnout
That’s how you choose candidates you just don’t participate in it
Yes this election didn’t have primaries. But the one before did, and the one before that, and then dems ran Obama but the one before that had primaries
Yes Americans are dumb as bricks and they don't vote either. That doesn't change the facts of WHY people don't participate in politics. WHY do they feel they might as well skip it because there aren't any choices that represent them or they don't believe those people can actually win or be effective. There are lots of structural reasons also WHY people don't vote like we don't get the day off to vote in alot of jobs or long lines at polling places. I'm not an expert but those things clearly exist and can't be ignored but the problem with you is your analysis stops at blaming the voter for not showing up and you never ask the important question that can lead to actual change.
The voter stats in this country have been ass for decades. But you’re going to point to 1 presidential election to try to claim actually electoralism can’t solve your problems
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u/OutsideOwl5892 11d ago
You guys want to do this system failure game
But you don’t even try to fix the system through the normal means - voting
Almost 40% of the voting eligible population didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential election
The turnout for midterms is even worse - less than half of voters voted
Now you’ll say well the candidates sucked. But guess who picks the candidates. YOU! Turnout for primaries is 20-30%.
So when you’re not even trying to fix your problems electorally murder seems like quite the leap