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0 pointsoh_my_goodness1y ago0 comments

Seems clear that (effectively) nobody is voting for fraud or rape.

But I've thought about it a lot, and I'm still clueless. Something to do with lots of people getting screwed, I guess. But why ordinary folks switch their vote from a party that serves the top 20%, to a party that serves the top 0.01%, that is still mysterious to me.

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bdangubic1y ago

USA is a two-party system so come Presidential election time one gets to choose between two options. There are effectively two ways you can choose between two options:

A. you are voting FOR one of the options.

B. you are voting AGAINST the other option - hence by default you must choose the other

there is a significant number of people that are in the B. bucket (in my personal circle 9 out of 20 people fall in B. bucket, 8 of which NEVER voted for a Republican in any election prior to this one) and democratic party needs to think looooong and hard about that before midterms and especially next Presidential election

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