• Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    We all knew it was going to be Kamala or Trump no matter what. The last 3rd party candidate to win a single EV vote was Wallace in 1968. Ross Perot won like 19% of the popular vote and zero EC votes. Across the entirety of all state and federal legislative offices, fewer than 1% are held by 3rd party candidates. Third party isn’t happening without electoral reform, and you won’t get that by losing elections. The voters and non-voters collectively put Trump in office.

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      13 hours ago

      You want reality to be something other than it was.

      Democrats put Trump into office with their intentional and abysmal approach to electoralism.

      Blaming the voter is like a basketball player blaming the court. The players decide entirely how to respond to it