Please don’t hate Americans and the USA. Direct your disgust at the dolt-in-chief and those who elected/support him. Most Americans are kicking themselves for not doing more to keep him out of any position of leadership.

  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Numbers may provide some perspective.

    There are 245M registered voters and 347M US citizens. Trump won 77M votes.

    That’s only 31% of registered voters, and 22% of the nation.

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      3 hours ago

      And this time around, anyone who failed to vote made a conscious decision to allow this. Those 69% of registered voters are not victims here.

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      8 hours ago

      So am I supposed to be mad at the 77 million voters or the 77 million voters plus the (at least) 91 million people who didn’t vote against him?

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        7 hours ago

        77+91 for me. Couldn’t even be bothered to do the bare minimum to stop this. So I hate most of my fellow Americans. Makes meeting new people and being in public generally miserable.

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        8 hours ago

        You can interpret that data any way you’d like.

        Personally, I felt some reassurance learning that 1 in 5 people voted for Trump after initially seeing it as every other person.