I hope Dale there realizes that pretty much every one of his American friends voted for Trump. Maybe that’s why he’s leaving. Two-faced liars don’t make great friends.
That’s not true, only a minority of Americans voted for Trump in 2024.
There are a lot of states that voted for Trump 3 fucking times.
They don’t get the benefit of the doubt any more.
Less than one‐third of all Americans who can vote actually cast their ballots for Trump. In fact, in every presidential race he’s run, he hasn’t ever reached a point where more than half of eligible voters in any state voted for him.
The third that didn’t vote essentially said “I’m happy either way”. I don’t think that’s much better.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Voting for a party is a form of acknowledging you agree with the party. A lot of people don’t agree with either party (and I know there are other parties in theory, practically speaking, there are two). The Republican Party is terrible but so is the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is better than the Republican Party and it would make sense to vote for Democratic Party to prevent the Republican Party from taking power. But I can appreciate people not wanting to explicitly support the Democratic Party either. Democratic politicians do as much insider trading and take as many legal bribes as Republican politicians. The US political system rewards bad behaviour. Not voting doesn’t signal that people are happy either way, it could as easily signal that people are sad either way.
This comment is an excellent example of the kind of BS that helped Trump win.
John Stuart Mill in 1867 said: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”
I’m not justifying not voting, I’m explaining that not voting doesn’t mean “I’m happy either way”. If you were a Palestinian and watched the Democratic party continue to arm the Israeli Defence Forces as they targeted civilians, you might find it hard to give them your vote, even though the alternative is worse. Have more compassion.
Not voting doesn’t signal that people are happy either way, it could as easily signal that people are sad either way.
Being “sad either way” is equally stupid. Feel free to argue that both options are bad but anyone with two braincells should be able to understand that one option is worse. Choosing to abstain is choosing to enable the worse option. Vote independent if you want, but fucking vote.
Trump was in the usual kind of range for winning presidential candidates’ percentage of the popular vote across the USA. By that measure he’s just as popular as many other presidents. I don’t know how he compares state by state to previous presidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin
While I agree with your emotion, let’s please also not abandon facts.
One in three Americans voted for Trump. So we cannot with any certainty say that any American individual did.
That said, as a group, they did elect him. One third voted for him and one third did not voted—allowing him to win. So I agree completely that they elected him and they do not get a pass for that.
However, I do not know how any individual voted.
One in three Americans voted for Trump
Or in more effective terms, only one third of Americans voted against Trump. Counting votes against eligible voters instead of votes cast isn’t the win you think it is.
No one here needs a reminder that 2/3 isn’t 3/3, thanks.
The principle remains: judge the group for its collective behavior, but don’t stereotype the individual.
You might want to check retirement communities in Florida and how they voted.
I assume the majority of folks in Florida retirement communities voted for Trump but Dale’s property was in Arizona and I doubt it was in a retirement community.
Spoiler Alert: Arizona is as full of fascists as Florida is. They voted against MLK day as well as other regressive measures and candidates.
“We were really disappointed to have to take this decision,” she said from her home in Vaudreuil-Dorion. “But we felt like we couldn’t betray our souls.”
Canadians really are on the front line of the resistance.
I didn’t know the Snowbirds were using US planes!!
