• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    For decades many voters in Western nations have collectively held their noses and voted for the person who they believed would do the least amount of damage.

    This isn’t democracy in action. It’s simply having nobody to vote for.

    • aew360@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      This is very much a millennial perspective. Looking at a demographic table, it’s overwhelmingly obvious that most Americans are boomers. And older people vote more often than younger people.

      We may see Trump and Biden as weak candidates, but this is literally what they want. It is democracy in action. We just don’t outnumber the older Americans lol. It’s obviously changing. Otherwise Sanders wouldn’t have made it as far as he did in 2016 and 2020.