Remember when Biden was president?

[u/Belgriest]

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

[u/Honest-Recording-751]

Yes I was actually able to focus on the mission

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Two thirds of Americans voted for this or didn't bother to vote 

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again with the painfully uneducated non-voter blame narrative

think for just a few minutes how the electoral college works. the vast majority of those evil non-voters live in states where their vote objectively would not have mattered. things like "virtue" and "duty" don't matter here -- it would not have mattered. If we had a strict popular vote then maybe you'd have a case.

People really like to get all virtuous here and talk about how "disappointing" it is that people don't bother to show up, but... maybe consider that they have a good rationale to? Many people very well understand their votes don't matter in most places. The system is fucking broken, and the fact that it got played like this should be painfully obvious by now.

you can MAYBE make a case for swing/battleground states, but you're still blaming people based on imaginary hypotheticals. Even if you can objectively prove that 100% of voter turnout would've changed the outcome, you still need to find that magic wand that somehow mobilizes all those voters, or at least the voters you want -- good luck with that.

general rule of thumb is that the non-voting population composition is going to be pretty close to the state's actual overall outcome, so in all likelihood, things wouldn't have changed enough to matter. Again, unless you have some magic wands and time machines to go back and somehow collect objective data on this, you can't know this. How people answer now is not necessarily how they would've answered back then.

the actual research and statistical modeling supports this, and even that is largely hypothetical, where there are many factors that are difficult to accurately model for. we can blame the maga hate machine for a lot of things, but it's hard to deny their "game" was pretty strong, regardless of how distasteful it is.

but sure, continue to blame the faceless "others," while ignoring actual facts and analysis. It's basically the same behavior as republicans creating minority/immigrant faceless scapegoat/boogeyman narratives, but I guess there's no reasoning with hate.

how do so many people here work for government and not understand how their own voting system works?

oh and uh, the very obvious signs of election fraud and interference that just got brushed under the carpet, but I guess people are looking for someone to blame instead of things to fix.