• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    143·
    2 months ago

    No matter who wins, the majority of Americans will be unhappy.

    This isn’t democracy

    That is exactly democracy. There will always be some significant fraction of voters who will be dissatisfied with the results. I would be more worried if the winning candidate had overwhelming support. Look at how much Reagan won by and how badly he fucked everything up. As long as voters are tussling over varied issues and considering their voting options then democracy is working.

    And I’m still convinced the DNC is in some kind of Brewster’s Millions scenario where they’re trying as hard as possible to lose the election.

    It’s the only way any of Biden’s actions make sense.

    Nonsense. The Democratic party has never had to put any particular effort into snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, they just do it.

    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
      27·
      2 months ago

      No it’s not democracy. It’s a bad implementation of democracy. Just like a bad implementation of communism doesn’t work.

      • btaf45@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Then the only thing that would improve it would be a better implementation of democracy. Not a slide backwards into neofascism.

        • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 months ago

          Where every vote counts, and everyone votes on everything, and popular vote wins. Ranked voting for 3+ options would be good too.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
      English
      28·
      2 months ago

      There will always be some significant fraction of voters who will be dissatisfied with the results.

      That’s very different than only 40% being happy if either candidate is president…

      That’s not a “significant faction”…

      That’s a sizable majority.

      Close to 2/3s of the country…