@randahl 250 million didn't vote for him. Your country needs to get behind the concept of quorum. "Majority rule" and "mandate" are meaningless when the majority feels like there's no point participating because they will be left behind anyway.

@adamantichrist @randahl 250 million eligible voters, from roughly 331 million citizens?! 😮

@jnfrd @randahl yeah, 180 million didn't vote at all and 70 odd voted for the shit lite party

@adamantichrist @randahl and why didn’t they vote? (I know it’s frustrating to vote for the smaller of two evils but still …)

@jnfrd I see the “x number of USians didn’t vote, how/why?” and it is frustrating because while there were plenty of people who didn’t vote, this statement doesn’t take into account how suppressed the vote is in the US. States enact their own laws and even counties are allowed to set rules. People can have to travel over an hour to get to their polling place, wait hours and hours in line with laws limiting people from distributing food or water, deal with voter ID laws and hostile poll workers.

@LaLaOrange I know, yet don’t comprehend that. Nonetheless, I know many people don’t vote because they think it’s not worth the effort. Even in Germany where voting is the simplest thing imaginable (or bless you’re homeless). Is the some statistic s out that or is it impossible to measure?