• JasSmith
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 天前

    Only 28% of adults voted for this

    Uh, isn’t that how American elections work? It’s decided based on the proportion of people who voted, not on the proportion of all adults. Trump won the popular vote 49.9% to 48.3% with the second highest number of votes in U.S. history. I don’t think any democracy divides votes by the total number of adults. How would that even work?

    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 天前

      It does mean that not much more than 28% of the adult population support him though.

      So he’s enacting all these democracy eroding changes for techno-authoitirians/fuedalists off of less than 1/3rd of the US’s population’s support.

      Elections don’t care, nor does policy. But it is closer to 1/4 than 1/2 of people who can even begin to be said as his supporters. Despite what the media cycle might imply.